First question: under what statutory authority as passed by the duly elected Legislative Branch? Will Republicans in Congress be asking this? Second question: what will Biden do to reduce his own massive use of electricity? Will Republicans take advantage by voting on legislation that restricts the energy use of Biden and the White House? Third question: just how high will this spike your energy bill and cause brown-outs?
Biden admin preparing major crackdown on power plants that fuel nation’s grid
The Biden administration is reportedly finalizing a proposal that would force fossil fuel-fired power plants to substantially curb emissions or utilize costly carbon capture technology.
The proposal — which will soon be released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) — is expected to require coal- and natural gas-fired power plants to cut or capture the vast majority of their carbon dioxide emissions by 2040, The New York Times reported on Saturday, citing officials briefed on a draft of the plan. The regulation, if finalized, would represent the first-ever federal action curbing power plant emissions.
“EPA cannot comment because the proposals are currently under interagency review,” EPA spokesperson Maria Michalos told Fox News Digital in a statement.
“But we have been clear from the start that we will use all of our legally-upheld tools, grounded in decades-old bipartisan laws, to address dangerous air pollution and protect the air our children breathe today and for generations to come,” Michalos said.
And those tools are what, exactly?
An Office of Management and Budget filing from late last year stated that the EPA anticipates issuing a proposed rule for the action, described as a proposal to limit greenhouse gas emissions from existing fossil fuel-fired plants, in spring 2023 and promulgating a final rule by summer 2024. The filing noted there are no EPA regulations on the books limiting emissions from existing electric generating units.
Shortly after he took office, President Biden pledged to enable the nation to achieve an up to 52% total emission reduction by 2030 and to create a carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035.
Yet, Biden takes massive amounts of fossil fueled trips every week, especially to head to Delaware or Camp David almost every weekend.
“Setting effective, affordable power plant carbon standards under the Clean Air Act now can ensure that the power industry delivers the emissions reductions needed to help meet the climate crisis,” argued an issue brief released this month by the Natural Resources Defense Council, an influential environmental group. “Time is of the essence.”
So, doing what California did, which will skyrocket your power bill, and limit the availability of electricity.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June 2022 that an Obama-era rule limiting power plant emissions under the Clean Air Act was unconstitutional, since Congress never granted the EPA the explicit power to issue such regulations. But the Inflation Reduction Act passed two months after that ruling allows the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
And, if authorized, it is so broad that the EPA can do whatever the hell they want. Will the EPA be reducing their own use of electricity?
Brilliant. It really IS Obama’s third term. He did promise us that electricity costs would skyrocket.
how about we pause this until China reduces ITS emissions?
In other words, Joe Biden, who has plenty of money himself, and his minions, want to raise everyone else’s electric bills, just as they are trying to force people to buy electric ranges instead of better gas ones, and plug in electric cars instead of reliable gasoline-powered ones.
It really is for your own good, stupid peasants.
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#BelieveTheLie
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Alan the average cost of electricity in the USA has increased at a steady 2% per year for the last 20 years
That is more like a bottle rocket than a skyrocket
Statista.com (avg USA electric price by year)
In 2009 Obama the average price was 9.8 cents per kWh
Under Biden 2021 that price bottle rocket fizzled to 11.1cents.
Please remember that GENERATION usually represents 1/3 of your bill.
Alan, why is it that you are blaming Obama for this non existent problem?
H, It’s quicker and easier for you to say “I don’t understand the problem, but I will opine anyway” for every post. It’s also accurate.
Teach typed:
We’re surprised ‘Mr’ Trump didn’t cancel the EPA during his brief but impactful reign.
First question: If President Biden stopped all his personal travel by fossil-fueled conveyance, would ‘Mr’ Teach change his position on global warming?
As usual, you missed the ball. OTOH, I’m glad that you have volunteered to be the first to have your electricity cut when you can’t afford it anymore and the national supply becomes intermittent.
there are 228 billion mature trees in the U.S., each of which average 50 pounds of CO2 absorbed every year. that is a total of 5.4 billion tons of CO2 absorbed in a year.
the U.S. emits 5.0 billion tons of CO2 every year, so trees (not including crop land, wet lands, pastures, lawns ect) absorb more CO2 than we emit.
why are further regulations needed??
Canadas trees absorb 17 times as much as the citizens emit, so the western, northern
hemisphere is not the cause of increased CO2. why are we paying for a problem whgich may, or may not, exist??
Very close!
What IS certainly true is that the concentration of atmospheric CO2 continues to increase.
Electric costs have been going up at 2% per year Alan.
And most of that increase is on the distribution side NOT Generation
https://www.chooseenergy.com/electricity-rates-by-state/
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