The Environmental Protection Agency announced it will scrap the Biden administration’s unworkable greenhouse gas emissions standards for coal and natural gas-fired power plants and all other greenhouse gas regulations for new and existing fossil-fueled power plants. In doing so, the Trump EPA will save American families hundreds of billions of dollars in unnecessary costs and prevent the Biden rules from causing massive rolling blackouts in America’s heartland.

Under the Biden administration’s rule, finalized in May 2024, reliable coal plants would be forced to install expensive and unproven carbon capture and sequestration technology by 2032 or retire, removing them from service at a time of surging power demand. The Biden rules would also make it harder to build the new natural gas plants needed to replace them. As a result, the grid would become increasingly dependent on expensive and unreliable wind, solar, and battery storage technologies.

In March, the Trump administration announced it would 

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