The Trump administration is moving to ax Biden-era climate and pollution rules for power plants, EPA administrator Lee Zeldin announced Wednesday.
The moves come as the Trump administration looks to promote a fossil fueled future — and are expected to worsen global warming and air pollution.
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to overturn Biden-era rules that required existing coal and new gas plants to capture at least 90 percent of their carbon emissions and tighten restrictions on coal plants’ releases of mercury and other toxic metals.
The climate rule that the Trump administration is proposing to ax would have prevented 1.4 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions between the years 2038 and 2047 – emissions equivalent to taking more than 300 million gas-powered cars off the road for a year, according to Biden-era projections.
