Biden’s Power-Plant Climate Plan Gives Utilities Time to Clean Up Their Act
Posted on AllSides May 12th, 2023
From The Left
The Biden administration’s latest plan to slash planet-warming pollution gives electric utilities years to clean up US coal and natural gas plants — but it would still force them to pick up their current pace. The proposal would drive dramatic changes across the electric sector, spurring early closures of some coal- and gas-fired plants while hastening the industry’s embrace of renewable power. But regulators softened the immediate impact by focusing on the largest emitters while ignoring plants critical to meeting demand spikes. The Environmental Protection Agency “has tried to build...
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