The Biden administration issued its final regulations for power plants Thursday, setting steep emissions reductions mandates that some energy organizations and experts warn could cause severe problems for the country in the longer term.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) rules for coal and natural gas power plants are among the most aggressive regulations that the agency has promulgated under President Joe Biden. While the Biden administration claims that the rules are major actions to fight climate change that will not affect the grid’s reliability, energy sector experts are warning that the rules could cause serious reliability issues that would harm the American economy.
The rules issued include a requirement for the country’s coal plants and new natural gas plants to install carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology to capture 90% of their carbon emissions in…
