EPA Wipes Out Power Plant Carbon Limits, Betting on Coal and Gas to Fuel AI Boom

EDITORIAL: EPA must police air emissions

The Environmental Protection Agency announced last week that it will no longer concern itself with limiting the health-threatening, atmosphere- warming air pollution (“emissions”) that power plants pump into the air while burning coal and gas. It’s an absolute outrage, of course, in keeping with the Trump administration’s seeming determination to unleash an air pollution free-for-all, and obliterate hopes of containing global warming.

EPA Wipes Out Power Plant Carbon Limits, Betting on Coal and Gas to Fuel AI Boom

The EPA repealed Biden-era carbon limits on coal and gas power plants, citing $310 billion in savings and questioning their climate impact. The move, announced in Houston, faces immediate lawsuits and could block future federal regulation. Health and environmental groups warn of thousands of additional deaths while the administration bets on fossil fuels to power surging AI demand.

Editorial: EPA must police air emissions | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

The Environmental Protection Agency announced last week that it will no longer concern itself with limiting the health-threatening, atmosphere- warming air pollution (“emissions”) that power plants pump into the air while burning coal and gas. It’s an absolute outrage, of course, in keeping with the Trump administration’s seeming determination to unleash an air pollution free-for-all, and obliterate hopes of containing global warming.

US EPA rolls back power plant safeguards, raising pollution fears for communities

The Environmental Protection Agency moved to scrap most of the Biden administration's climate rules for power plants and signaled that it intends to eliminate the rest.

Trump's EPA unleashes American power by rescinding carbon 'pollution' standards

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin says it will immediately remove over $300 billion in costs to the energy sector, aiding affordability across the economy. "Under my plan, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket." So said Barack Obama when campaigning for president in 2008. He and

EPA Rolls Back 2024 Carbon Pollution Restrictions

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, better known as the EPA, finalized a partial repeal of the Biden-era 2024 Carbon Pollution Standards for fossil-fuel-fired power plants Monday afternoon — pulling back on some previous protections made at the