“The bottom line is that the EPA is trying to get out of the climate change sector,” says Ryan Maher, a lawyer for the Centers for Biological Diversity.
The announcement comes a few days after the Ocean and atmospheric national administration (Noaa) in silence released New record figures showing the highest seasonal concentration of CO2 in the recorded story.
Tuesday in a press conference, flanked by the legislators of some of the best states that produce fossil fuels in the country, the administrator of the Lee Zeldin has accused both Obama and Biden administrations of “trying to suffocate our economy to protect the environment”. Zeldin identified the data centers as helping to guide the unprecedented question in the United States energy sector in the next decade. The EPA, he said, is “to take actions to end the Agency’s war on so much of our US internal energy supply”.
The proposed Rollbacks aim at a suite of rules on the electrical power plants sector implement last year by the Biden Administration. These regulations have commissioned that the electric coal and gas power plants reduce their 90 percent emissions to the beginning of 2030, mainly using carbon capture and storage technology.
Between a band of justifications for rebound regulations, the new proposal of the APA maintains that, since the emissions of the US energy sector represented only 3 % of global emissions in 2022 – falling from 5.5 percent in 2005 in 2005 – and because the use of the coal of other countries continues to grow, the generation of US electricity from Fossil “does not contribute significantly to concentrations GHG high global in the atmosphere. ” However, generation of electricity He was responsible for 25 percent of US emissions in 2022According to the EPA, making it second only to the transport between the dirty sectors of the economy. An analysis of New York University published At the beginning of this month I discovered that if the United States energy sector was his separate country, it would be the sixth largest emitter in the world.
“This action would be ridiculous if the stakes were not so high,” says Meredith Hankins, a lawyer of the Council for Defense of Natural Resources.
The EPA is also targeting the rule of mercury and the standards of air toxic toxic (MAT), which requires that the power plants maintain controls to reduce the amount of mercury and other toxic atmospheric pollutants emitted by their plants. The Biden administration in 2024 strengthened these standards, which date back to 2011. Despite the progress in the reduction of mercury emissions since the Mats rule has initially implemented, the coal power plants are still the larger source of mercury emissions In the United States.
The administration also clarified that it intends to try to revive the coal industry, which has been in strong decline from the rise of low -cost natural gas and renewable energy in the years 2010. In a series of executive orders issued in April in April, the industry Trump has linked the future of the domination of the AI in the United States to the integration of an anchor of salvation to coal.
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