After court blocks renewables push, US promotes carbon capture & hydrogen
Published on 11/05/2023, 1:48pm
The Environmental Protection Agency will set limits on power plants’ emissions, forcing them to clean up or shut down
By Reuters and Joe Lo
The Biden administration unveiled a sweeping plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions from the nation’s power industry on Thursday, one of the biggest steps so far in its effort to decarbonise the American economy to fight climate change.
The proposal would limit the amount of carbon dioxide that power plants, which are the source of more than a quarter of U.S. emissions, can send into the atmosphere, putting the industry on a years-long course to install billions of dollars of new equipment or shut down.
Environmental groups and scientists have long argued that such steps are crucial to curb global warming, but fossil-fuel-producing states argue that they represent government overreach and threaten to destabilise the electric grid.
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The Environmental Protection Agency projects the plan would cut carbon emissions from coal plants and new gas plants by 617 million tonnes between 2028 and 2042. That’s around 44m tonnes a year, about the same as the nation of Denmark pumps out.
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2023/05/11/after-court-blocks-renewables-push-us-promotes-carbon-capture-hydrogen/
