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The EPA administrator Lee Zelding proposes the end of Obama bids “Clean Power Plan” and returned to 2012 more appropriate mercury levels that were changed in 2024.
Posted by Leslie Eastman
The Trump administration recently announced its intention to lift the EPA rules of the bidea era, which regulate the greenhouse gas emissions and the mercury pollution from coal and natural gas power plants, which from the “Clean Power Plan from 2015”, the “Clean Power Plan 2.0” of bidges and the Mercury and air lifting disorders 2024 come.
The EPA administrator Lee Zeldin said that these regulations were considered excessively stressful for industry and suppressed economic growth. The proposed rollback would remove caps on carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal -fired power plants and future natural gas systems as well as relaxation limits for mercury and other toxic air pollutants.
The EPA administrator Lee Zeldin said in a press conference that the carbon pollution standards from the bid era “require” the economy to protect the environment. Zeldin, who was appointed by President Donald Trump in January, explained that the announcement of the agency for the United States was a big step in energy dominance, while she promised that no power plants would emit more than already. The electricity sector currently makes a quarter of all US emissions according to the latest EPA emission data.
The proposed cancellations are two of Trump's EPA of the following current trains, since the administration continues to settle the bidea era's climate and clean energy policy. The reversal means that power plants that are suitable for retirement will now continue to run.
The agency announced no intention to rewrite regulations in order to replace the bidges for carbon emissions that could effectively leave the carbon emissions of US power plants unregulated if the proposed cancellation is complete. Zeldin announced that the agency will be revised the rule for Mercury and other toxic air pollution and suggests removing a rule that was completed last year.
Power plants are the second largest emitter of planet pollution in the United States, which make up around a quarter of the country's climate pollution. The US power plants alone contribute 3% to total global climate pollution.
By lifting the CO2 rules without replacement, the administration's proposal is more comprehensive than the power plant regulations, Carrie Jenk's, the executive director of the environmental and energy law program of the Harvard Law School, which was completed in the first term of trump, told CNN.
This would lead to aging coal -fired power plants in operation for a long time and enabling new gas systems with looser restrictions on contamination, Jeks said.
“They begin that coal -fired power plants that were expected to retire to retire continued to operate,” added Jenks.
Zeldin officially declared the end of the war war of the bidges era against the American energy industry.
The EPA proposes to highlight the unconstitutional Obama “Clean Power Plan”, the “Clean Power Plan 2.0” by Biden and the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards 2024 (which return to the effective standards for 2012).
These rules aroused massive costs for power plants and increased the costs of …
– Lee Zeldin (@paleeldin) June 11, 2025
Ecotivist agitators and left -wing power associations that want to control the Americans through environmental regulations are upset.
Dr. Lisa Patel, a pediatrician and executive director of the consortium of the Medical Society on Climate & Health, described the suggestions as “another in a series of attacks” by the Trump government about “health, our children, our climate and the basic idea of clean air and water”.
She called it “incomprehensible to believe that our country would move after somewhat common sense as the protection of children from mercury and our planet before worsening hurricanes, forest fires, floods and poor air quality that are powered by climate change”.
“Ignoring the immense damage to public health through the pollution of the power plants is a clear violation of the law,” added Manish Bapna, President and CEO of the Defense Council for Natural Resources.
However, I am inclined to assume that American health is better taken through the measures of the secretary for health and human services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and makes energy cheap and easily available.
The fear championship around the environment based on pseudoscience no longer has the power she once had.
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