Biden targets power plant emissions. How does your state stack up? – By Mark Trumbull (CS Monitor) / May 11, 2023
The Biden administration is proposing new rules for electric power plants, a key step in its goal of slowing climate change by creating a net zero-emission economy.
The plan, announced May 11 by the Environmental Protection Agency, sets strict new standards for individual power plants to meet, largely eliminating carbon dioxide emissions by 2040.
Utilities will be able to decide whether to replace plants now running on coal or natural gas, or to deploy new technologies to capture their emissions.
Behind the move is the EPA’s Clean Air Act authority to set standards for healthy air. Supreme Court rulings have backed up the agency in saying since 2009 that emissions of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere endanger public health by threatening the planet’s climate.
