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New Analysis Sees ‘Backstop’ Role For Biden EPA Power Plant GHG Rule

January 10, 2025
A new analysis from economists and other researchers finds the Biden EPA’s power plant greenhouse gas standards would slash even more emissions than the agency projected and that the rule would provide a key backstop in the event high-emissions coal power generation increases, though the rule is unlikely to survive the incoming Trump EPA. The rules “accelerate emissions reductions in the power sector,” the researchers write in a Jan. 9 article published in the journal Science , adding that...


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