This will “necessarily skyrocket: the cost of energy, followed by the cost of living. Not that Biden or his people care, they’re rich, it won’t bug them
Biden rule tells power plants to cut climate pollution by 90 percent — or shut down
The Biden administration is announcing a climate rule that would require most fossil fuel power plants to slash their greenhouse gas pollution 90 percent between 2035 and 2040 — or shut down.
The highly anticipated regulation being unveiled Thursday morning is just the latest step in President Joe Biden’s campaign to green the U.S. economy, an effort that has brought a counterattack from Republicans and coal-state Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin. That’s on top of efforts by Biden’s agencies to promote the use of electric cars, subsidize green energy sources like solar and wind and tighten regulations on products including gas stoves and dishwashers.
The draft power plant rule from the Environmental Protection Agency would break new ground by requiring steep pollution cuts from plants burning coal or natural gas, which together provide the lion’s share of the nation’s electricity. To justify the size of those cuts, the agency says fossil fuel plants could capture their greenhouse gas emissions before they hit the atmosphere — a long-debated technology that no power plant in the U.S. uses now.
As an alternative, utilities could hasten their decisions to shut down their aging coal plants, a trend that has already gathered speed in the past two decades. The rule allows plants that agree to close in the first half of the 2030s to avoid most or all of the pollution-reduction mandates.
It would be one thing if the Biden regime would fast-track next gen nuclear power plants, but, they won’t. This plan will skyrocket energy prices AND make it less dependable, even taking out the push for EVs. Where do they think this energy is going to come from?
I do expect at least 19 states to sue the minute this rule is passed, just like they did with Obama’s clean power plan, Waters Of The US, other Obama climate scam rules, and some Biden climate scam rules. And the Supreme Court just ruled last year
In its 6-3 ruling, the court said that only Congress, not the EPA, has the power to create a broad system of cap-and-trade regulations to limit emissions from existing power plants in a bid to transition away from coal to renewable energy sources.
The decision is a major setback for the Biden administration’s agenda to combat climate change, specifically the goal to zero out carbon emissions from power plants by 2035 and cut in half the country’s emissions by 2100.
The case stems from the EPA’s directive in 2015 to coal power plants to either reduce production or subsidize alternate forms of energy. That order was never implemented because it was immediately challenged in court.
It wasn’t just cap and trade, it was about Congress having the power, not the Executive Branch. It’s rather in that Constitution thingy. It will be interesting to see under what previous passed law the EPA things they have the authority to pass this massive rule that will have an enormous effect on American citizens.
If the GOP had any cajones, they’d put a simple bill up that would require the White House and EPA to only use renewables starting in 2024.
And if power plants can’t cut their emissions 90% by the deadline, and there aren’t enough ‘renewable’ energy plants running to meet the demand, what then?
The EPA has made their decision, now let them enforce it.
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So- no power plants and all electric cars- what could go wrong?
you think they don’t want anyone to be able to travel?
The basic premise that mankind can somehow control the temperature of the earth is in and of itself delusional, similar to the delusion that a man can transform himself into a woman and vice versa. Lord Monckton has pointed out that 2+2=4, not five!
The notion that replacing real autos with electric buggies at twice the capital and running costs will reduce emissions. Brilliant! It won’t, because in most Western countries, wind and solar power are already at or above their Pollock limit, so that the power for the buggies will have to come from coal and gas, at least until the soi-disant “Greens” abandon their sullen opposition to the peaceful use of nuclear power.
The Traffic-Light Tendency — the Greens too yellow to admit they’re really Reds — are opposed to coal-fired, gas-fired, oil-fired, nuclear, and hydroelectric generation. Yet wind and solar power, which they favor, cannot keep the lights on 24/7; are cripplingly expensive; are cruel to landscape, seascape, and wildlife; and, though their exceptionally low energy density, do more environmental damage per MWh generated than any other form of power.
Why, then, do the climate communists advocate wind and solar power and oppose just about everything else? They do so precisely because there is no quicker or more certain way to destroy the economies of the hated West and to end its hegemony than to destroy its energy infrastructure. For that, and not Saving the Planet, is their true objective. What they advocate makes sense when seen in that light and makes no sense otherwise.
Trust us we’re communists nobody said, ever.
Teach you have multiple priors for fear mongering kids about skyrocketing electric prices
Nationwide our country has averaged 2% increase per year for the last 20 years
Didn’t you get a notification from your electric company saying there was going to be a 16% increase because of the increase in fossil fuels? I read that they had notified their customers
They could if they wanted to. Start fast tracking Nuclear power plants. Perhaps use the same one’s that are currently operating on 75 (or more) US Navy vessels. Modified for commercial use of course.
The problem is…they can’t champion nuclear energy because politics. Nuclear power is a big problem for the enviro-whackos of the left. That makes it a big problem for the normal whackos of the left.
It’s a very good idea to fast-track new nuclear power plants. One way to get the ball rolling is to insist that coal plants clean up their act.