25 States Led by WV Ask DC Circuit to Overturn EPA Power Plant Reg
The Bidenistas at the EPA attacked coal and gas-fired power plants in April, threatening to destabilize the existing electric power grid with new regulations (see EPA Rolls Out Final Regs Attacking Coal & Gas-Fired Power). Using 1,020 pages of new regulations, which will go into effect this year, all coal-fired plants that are slated to remain operational in the long term and all new gas-fired power plants will be required to control (capture) 90% of their carbon emissions using expensive and unproven technology. Translation: New gas-fired plants won’t get built, and most, if not all, coal plants will shutter, with the result that electricity will, by necessity, be rationed (see WSJ Calls Biden EPA Power Plant Regs a Plan to “Ration Electricity”). But that won’t happen if West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and the AGs for 24 other states have their way. Last week, Morrisey and other AGs petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, asking the court to invalidate the EPA’s new finalized power plant regulation.
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