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Trump moves to ax power plant rules

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12.06.2025
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Energy & Environment

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EPA proposes cutting power plant climate regulations

The Trump administration is moving to ax all climate rules alongside Biden-era and pollution rules for power plants.

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The moves come as the Trump administration looks to promote fossil fuels and are expected to worsen global warming and air pollution.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to find that power plants’ greenhouse gas emissions “do not contribute significantly to dangerous air pollution” and therefore should not be regulated.

In effect, this proposal would overturn Biden-era rules that required existing coal and new gas plants to capture at least 90 percent of their carbon emissions and tighten restrictions on coal plants’ releases of mercury and other toxic metals.

The climate rule that the Trump administration is proposing to ax would have prevented an estimated 1.4 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions between the years 2038 and 2047 — emissions equivalent to taking more than 300 million gas-powered cars off the road for a year, according to Biden-era projections.

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