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On June 11, the Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposal to repeal federal limits on carbon emissions of the energy plant, including a Biden era rule Require that the power plants control 90% of their carbon pollution and a 2015 standard Limit carbon dioxide emissions of new fossil fuel power plants.
If they become definitive, the plans mean that coal, oil and gas plants in the United States will no longer need to comply with federal limits in carbon dioxide emissions.
In the announcement, the agency argued that carbon emissions “are of a global nature”, so any of its possible public health damages cannot be attributed precisely to the emissions of the United States. However, the US electrical sector is among the largest sources of carbon pollution in the world, and the emissions of the United States electrical sector already contribute to billions of dollars in global health damages, according to a report Of the Policy Integrity Institute.
The carbon pollution standards that EPA aims to erase “have been criticized as designed to regulate coal, oil and gas outside existence,” said EPA administrator Lee Zeldin. statement. “According to many, the main purpose of these regulations of the Biden-Harris administration was to destroy industries that would not be aligned with their narrow climate change zelotry.”
He Associated Press estimates That the biden carbon contamination limits could avoid up to 30,000 premature deaths every year.
“By giving green light to more pollution, [Zeldin’s] Legacy will always be someone to make the offers of the fossil fuel industry at the expense of our health, ”said Gina McCarthy, former EPA administrator, to the New York Times.
The announcement occurs a day after Jarrod Agnen, energy advisor to President Trump and executive director of the National Energy Domain Domain of the White House ,, reaffirmed the intention of the administration To focus the production of American energy in coal and natural gas.
“The president’s priorities are about to change fossil fuels,” Agnen said, adding that President Trump “is not focused on wind and solar energy.”
The EPA also has “hopes”, you can reverse a 2009 statement that greenhouse gases threaten the public health and well -being of current and future generations, according Political. The agency has already exempted at least 66 electric power plants of federal limits on air pollution.
In the same announcement, the EPA also proposed the elimination of a rule known as the Mercury standards and air toxicwhich harden mercury emissions and other toxic metals of electric plants. Documents describing Zeldin’s plans for the mercury rule, reviewed by the New York Times, The Biden administration “Coal Centers incorrectly” said when created the original rule.
—Grace van deelen (@gvd.bsky.social), Personnel writer
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