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Biden administration announces plans to slash greenhouse gas emissions from power plants

Headline from CBS News, from the development of May 11, 2023

Newest development May 12, 2023 · 4 reportsBiden administration’s power plant rules underscore reality of EPA limits

The EPA says implementing the proposed new standard would be comparable to taking about half of all U.S. cars off the road.

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    Biden administration announces plans to slash greenhouse gas emissions from power plants

    Headline from CBS News ·

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    Biden administration’s power plant rules underscore reality of EPA limits

    Headline from NBC News ·

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19 articles, oldest first.

  1. CBS News

    Biden administration announces plans to slash greenhouse gas emissions from power plants (opens CBS News)

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    CBS News's feed description

    The EPA says implementing the proposed new standard would be comparable to taking about half of all U.S. cars off the road.

  2. Politico

    Biden rule tells power plants to cut climate pollution by 90 percent — or shut down (opens Politico)

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    Politico's feed description

    The administration is launching Washington’s most ambitious effort in almost a decade to reduce the nation’s second-largest source of greenhouse gases — and hopes this one will survive in court.

  3. Christian Science Monitor

    Biden targets power plant emissions. How does your state stack up? (opens Christian Science Monitor)

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    Christian Science Monitor's feed description

    As the Biden administration proposes new power plant rules to address climate change, our chart package looks at current emissions and how to fund a transition.

  4. Bloomberg

    Biden’s Plan to Cut Planet-Warming Pollution Spares Most Gas Plants (opens Bloomberg)

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    Bloomberg's feed description

    The Biden administration is cracking down on planet-warming pollution from the US electric sector with proposed requirements that would force the nation’s coal plants and largest gas-fired units to stifle nearly all their carbon dioxide emissions.

  5. Fox News

    Biden green-lights aggressive power plant emissions restrictions, hamstringing fossil fuel generation (opens Fox News)

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    Fox News's feed description

    The Biden administration announced an aggressive plan to curb power plant emissions Thursday, but acknowledged the regulations could lead to slightly higher prices.

  6. Wall Street Journal

    Biden Administration Targets Power-Plant Emissions in New Climate Initiative (opens Wall Street Journal)

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    Wall Street Journal's feed description

    Tough new rules could force some coal-fired plants to close.

  7. Phys

    Biden administration announces plan to curb emissions from power plants (opens Phys)

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    Phys's feed description

    President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday announced plans to curb planet-warming emissions from the nation's power stations, as part of the United States' efforts to combat climate change.

  8. Washington Times

    Biden unveils sweeping EPA rules to force power plants to slash nearly all emissions (opens Washington Times)

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    Washington Times's feed description

    The Biden administration proposed new rules Thursday to drastically cut emissions from fossil fuel power plants, a major component of the president’s climate change agenda to achieve a zero-emission electrical grid by 2035.

  9. Nature

    Carbon capture key to Biden’s new power-plant rule: is the tech ready? (opens Nature)

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    Nature's feed description

    Regulation aims to reduce facilities’ emissions of climate-altering gases — a goal that could require carbon burial.

  10. Fortune

    Biden administration embarking on its most ambitious effort yet to roll back planet-warming pollution (opens Fortune)

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    Fortune's feed description

    A rule could force power plants to capture smokestack emissions using a technology that has long been promised but is not in widespread use in the U.S.

  11. PJ Media

    Induced Energy Crisis? Biden Admin Has New Pollution Limits for Power Plants (opens PJ Media)

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    PJ Media's feed description

    The Biden administration’s “solution” to every crisis is to make it even worse. As Americans face electricity shortages and high gas prices, Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced...

  12. Fox News

    Biden's latest climate action threatens US power grid, experts say (opens Fox News)

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    Fox News's feed description

    The Biden administration announced a major crackdown on power plant emissions this week which experts said could create a future power grid crisis.

  13. NBC News

    Biden administration’s power plant rules underscore reality of EPA limits (opens NBC News)

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    NBC News's feed description

    The rules could reduce carbon emissions but also extend some fossil fuel infrastructure, leaving some communities to continue reckoning with air pollution.

  14. Bloomberg

    Biden’s Power-Plant Climate Plan Gives Utilities Time to Clean Up Their Act (opens Bloomberg)

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    Bloomberg's feed description

    The Biden administration’s latest plan to slash planet-warming pollution gives electric utilities years to clean up US coal and natural gas plants — but it would still force them to pick up their current pace.

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