Read the full story from NPR. See also:
- EPA’s news release
- A summary of the rule on EPA’s website, which includes the docket number (EPA-HQ-OAR-2023-0072) at regulations.gov
- The Hill’s story on West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin’s response.
Coal and gas-fired power plants would have to eliminate nearly all their climate-warming carbon dioxide emissions in just a little over a decade, under proposed regulations issued today by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Owners of those plants have been allowed to spew climate-warming carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere for more than a century. If these proposed regulations are finalized, they would come close to putting a stop to that practice.
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