Industry Groups Claim US Power Grid Can’t Meet Biden’s Climate Rule

Industry Groups Claim US Power Grid Can't Meet Biden's Climate Rule

OAN Roy Francis

1:45 PM – Friday, May 12, 2023

The new rule implemented by the Biden administration aimed at driving drastic changes in how power companies across the nation produce electricity, reportedly escalates the risk of outages according to various industry groups.

On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published new carbon pollution standardswhich would force "utilities to decide whether to close coal and gas plants that produce high amounts of planet-warming carbon dioxide before 2040. As an alternative, power companies could retrofit their coal or gas plants with technology to capture their carbon pollution, or could blend in cleaner-burning hydrogen with gas," according to Politico.

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The new standards include, "Strengthening the current New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for newly built fossil fuel-fired stationary combustion turbines (generally natural gas-fired), Establishing emission guidelines for states to follow in limiting carbon pollution from existing fossil fuel-fired steam generating EGUs (including coal, oil and natural gas-fired units) and establishing emission guidelines for large, frequently used existing fossil fuel-fired stationary combustion turbines (generally natural gas-fired)"

EPA Administrator, Michael Regan, released a statement in support of the new regulations saying that the agency's proposal "relies on proven, readily available technologies."

"By proposing new standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants, EPA is delivering on its mission to reduce harmful pollution that threatens people's health and wellbeing," the statement said. "EPA's proposal relies on proven, readily available technologies to limit carbon pollution and seizes the momentum already underway in the power sector to move toward a cleaner future."

Power producers across the nation decried the new standards warning the they threaten to compromise the reliability of the power network by retiring the older gas and coal powered plants at a faster pace than they are currently being closed.

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