by Audrey Streb
Heartlander News
The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday repealed Biden-era power plant regulations and proposed axing even more rules in what it called the “largest power sector deregulatory action in U.S. history.”
Specifically, the EPA issued a final rule repealing most of the Biden administration’s greenhouse gas (GHG) requirements for power plants and announced a proposed rule to gut the remaining GHG regulations stifling the power sector. The agency said the end of the Biden-era standards will save $310 billion and, if the proposed rule is finalized, an additional $370 million in direct compliance costs.
The policy shift is long overdue and is set to strengthen the nation’s power grid and lower costs for consumers, some energy policy experts told Heartlander News.
“Repealing the power plant rule for greenhouse gas emissions is key to the Trump energy agenda. Now, it will have to be defended in court,” Steve Milloy, a former Trump EPA transition team adviser and senior fellow at the Energy & Environment Legal Institute, told Heartlander News, adding that Congress should pass legislation to help ensure that the EPA or the states cannot regulate emissions independently from the federal government.
