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E&E News
11-06-2025
- Business
- E&E News
EPA revoking Biden's climate limits for power plants
President Donald Trump's administration is moving to wipe out federal limits on power plants' climate pollution — attacking the Biden era's most ambitious attempt to use regulations to lessen the nation's output of heat-trapping gases. EPA announced Wednesday that it would scrap the 2024 regulation that requires existing coal-burning power plants, and future plants burning natural gas, to begin capturing their carbon dioxide pollution in the 2030s. The Trump proposal would leave the nation's second-largest source of climate pollution — the power sector — free of federal requirements to address global warming. The first Trump administration repealed a similar rule that had been written under former President Barack Obama and replaced it with a weaker regulation. Advertisement The United States is the world's second-biggest climate polluter, lagging only behind China. But in its draft rule, EPA argues that the U.S. power sector's pollution by itself doesn't significantly contribute to global climate change, making it unnecessary to regulate it. The administration also announced it would repeal a separate Biden-era rule aimed at reducing power plants' releases of toxic mercury into the air.
E&E News
11-06-2025
- Politics
- E&E News
EPA to propose rolling back climate rule for power plants Wednesday
The Trump administration will move Wednesday to repeal federal limits on power plant climate pollution, attacking the Biden era's most ambitious attempt to use regulations to rein in heat-trapping gases from the electric grid, according to six people familiar with the situation. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin will announce the repeal of the power plant carbon dioxide rule along with a separate regulation to curb hazardous air pollution such as mercury during an event at agency headquarters, the people said. The two repeal proposals are the most important EPA regulatory actions of President Donald Trump's second term to date. Without offering details, EPA said Tuesday that Zeldin will make a 'major policy announcement' at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Advertisement Scrapping the Biden-era power plant rule would effectively shelve regulations for the nation's second-biggest producer of climate pollution — the electricity sector — which accounts for one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gases.
