Biden EPA Cut Corners with New Reg to Limit Fossil Fuel Power Plants

Two weeks ago, the Bidenistas at the EPA issued, for a second time, new regulations aimed at controlling how much carbon dioxide (CO2, the stuff you breathe out with every breath you take) electric power plants can emit. West Virginia intends to overturn the new regulations with a lawsuit, the same as the state did last year (see West Virginia Wins Supreme Court Case Against EPA re Power Plants). What we didn't know until today is that this latest EPA reg was originally intended to try and kill off all remaining coal-fired power plants only--not gas-fired plants. Last-minute political prompting from the Biden White House goaded the EPA to add gas-fired plants too. But the agency hurried and cut corners to do it.

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