EPA Power Plant Rollback To Add 123 Million More Tons of CO2

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a rollback on its authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, removing restrictions on coal and gas plants' emissions. This change will likely increase carbon pollution by 123 million tons, undermining previous efforts under the Biden administration to combat climate change.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced in September that it will relinquish its authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants under the Clean Air Act, a tool previously used to tackle climate change. This effectively removes any limits on emissions from coal and gas plants and reduces the government’s ability to curb this pollution. When the carbon pollution standards for power plants were introduced under the Biden administration in 2024, the EPA said it expected the new rules to reduce greenhouse gas…