{"id":477129,"date":"2026-10-06T09:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T16:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=477129"},"modified":"2026-10-06T09:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T16:11:14","slug":"us-unshackles-its-power-plants-poor-nations-must-do-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=477129","title":{"rendered":"US Unshackles Its Power Plants; Poor Nations Must Do the Same"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From CO2 Coalition<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Vijay Jayaraj<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United States has unshackled power plants from politically driven emission regulations that held them hostage for decades, eventually forcing many facilities to close. When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officially tore up its greenhouse gas limits, the agency put reliable energy ahead of climate ideology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far, the silence from the capitals of developing nations is deafening. National leaders across Africa, Asia, and Latin America sit mute in the face of this massive shift to rational energy policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For years, these leaders blamed Western pressure for their refusal to build infrastructure for the use of coal and natural gas. Now, the largest economy on Earth has abandoned destructive emission restrictions, yet the economies that most need such relief continue to bow before the global climate cartel to the detriment of their own citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The history of human progress is inseparable from abundant energy. Coal powered industrialization. Oil enabled mass transport, modern agriculture, and global trade. Natural gas brought dependable heat and electricity to households and factories. These fossil fuels increased production, reduced physical hardship, improved public health, and made once-exclusive technologies available to ordinary people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between 1990 and 2016, the share of humanity with electricity climbed from 71% to 87%<\/a>, and South Asia doubled to 86% the number of people having this service, which much of the West has long taken for granted. Over a 20-year period in India, an index<\/a> that measures monetary poverty and access to education and basic services collapsed from 55% of the population suffering such deprivation to 16%, while access to clean cooking fuel rose from 22% to 68%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disrupting this remarkable progress driven by hydrocarbons was not a natural calamity or a resource crunch, but the political ideology of a fabricated climate crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Governments around the globe surrendered their energy choices to a system built on United Nations climate negotiations, prerequisites for financing arrangements and foreign aid, and net zero targets. International agencies with globalist yearnings decided which power plants could be built, which fuels could be used, and which technologies received political favor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting Rid of Unscientific Policy Barriers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EPA of the current administration understands how the climate regime has undermined American energy security. It now says that the U.S. Clean Air Act cannot authorize power plant regulation based on climate change. The larger economic point needs no courtroom: When a rule makes dependable generation harder to finance, build, or operate, it raises the price of every activity that depends on electricity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The arithmetic is simple: Emissions are a global quantity, a single nation\u2019s power sector is a rounding error within it, and the supposed health benefits of shuttering that sector are too remote and too speculative to justify the certain, measurable damage of expensive electricity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That reasoning now resides in an American federal rulemaking. It has been the central point of climate realists<\/a> for years, and although dismissed by alarmists as denial, it has arrived at the policy table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is why the phrase \u201cenergy transition\u201d <\/strong>sounds detached from reality in the developing world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A transition from what to what? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A villager who burns wood is not transitioning away from a modern grid. A factory owner facing daily blackouts is not choosing between two equally dependable technologies. A hospital running on diesel during outages is not making a lifestyle statement. These people need more power, delivered at a price they can pay, from every source capable of producing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The American energy reset is an exit from climate imperialism and an entr\u00e9e to greater freedom to pursue prosperity. After appeasing ministers of international climate commitments for years, leaders of developing countries who do not seize this opportunity betray their people and invite political backlash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Originally published at American Greatness<\/a><\/em>, October 1, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vijay Jayaraj is a Science and Research Associate at the<\/em> CO2 Coalition<\/em><\/a>, Fairfax, Virginia. He holds an M.S. in environmental sciences from the University of East Anglia and a postgraduate degree in energy management from Robert Gordon University, both in the U.K., and a bachelor\u2019s in engineering from Anna University, India. He served as a research associate with the Changing Oceans Research Unit at University of British Columbia, Canada.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officially tore up its greenhouse gas limits, the agency put reliable energy ahead of climate ideology.
\nGovernments around the globe surrendered their energy choices to a system built on United Nations climate negotiations, prerequisites for financing arrangements and foreign aid, and net zero targets. International agencies with globalist yearnings decided which power plants could be built, which fuels could be used, and which technologies received political favor.<\/p>\n

Governments around the globe surrendered their energy choices to a system built on United Nations climate negotiations, prerequisites for financing arrangements and foreign aid, and net zero targets. International agencies with globalist yearnings decided which power plants could be built, which fuels could be used, and which technologies received political favor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":477130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"Explore how the U.S. unshackled its power plants and what it means for developing nations still facing energy poverty and climate pressure.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"Empowering Developing Nations: Lessons from the U.S. Energy Reset","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691839731,691818056,691846079,691840108,691819635,691818154,691819148,691827794,691823480,691820304],"class_list":["post-477129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-energy-transition-7","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-ideology-2","tag-climate-negotiations","tag-coal","tag-net-zero","tag-oil-and-gas","tag-the-united-nations-un","tag-u-s-environmental-protection-agency-epa","tag-united-states","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-207D","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":428126,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=428126","url_meta":{"origin":477129,"position":0},"title":"EPA\u2019s CO2 Reversal Is Welcome Opening for Developing World","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"02\/26\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"There is more to be done. 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