NEWS & POLITICS
Induced Energy Crisis? Biden Admin Has New Pollution Limits for Power Plants
BY CATHERINE SALGADO 12:35 PM ON MAY 12, 2023
Induced Energy Crisis? Biden Admin Has New Pollution Limits for Power Plants
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The Biden administration’s “solution” to every crisis is to make it even worse. As Americans face electricity shortages and high gas prices, Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced new pollution limits for coal and natural gas plants that will lead to at least some plant closures. All to fight the fake climate emergency. The EPA is full of hot air and needs to cool down.
Gas and coal provide about 60% of electricity in America, and it’s literally impossible to replace all that with “renewable” energy. But EPA Administrator Michael Regan admitted the new limits will lead to some plant closures, the AP reported.
A rule announced by the Environmental Protection Agency could force power plants to capture smokestack emissions using a technology that has long been promised but is not used widely in the United States…Almost all coal plants — along with large, frequently used gas-fired plants — would have to cut or capture nearly all their carbon dioxide emissions by 2038, the EPA said. Plants that cannot meet the new standards would be forced to retire.
The EPA rule would supposedly not mandate the expensive carbon capturing equipment, which is still in the development stage, but with the caps set on plants’ carbon dioxide pollution, they are likely to struggle for solutions.
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