What does the repeal of power plant pollution limits mean?
The EPA’s repeal concerns climate pollution standards originally finalized by the Biden Administration in 2024. The regulations applied to coal-burning plants in operation and any prospective gas-burning plants, and required coal plants to install technology to capture most of its carbon emissions by 2039 in order to keep operating, while gas plants would have been required to operate on cleaner fuels, like hydrogen.
The Biden Administration predicted that the rule would have prevented up to 1,200 premature deaths, 360,000 cases of asthma symptoms, 48,000 school absence days, and…
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