The Joe Biden regime has approved 681 pages of new coal power regulations likely to strangle coal-focused energy companies and the mines that supply them. [emphasis, links added]
Demands in new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations include requiring coal power stations to install carbon capture systems that do not exist commercially at scale.
Along with new baseload gas-fired plants, coal power stations must slash emissions by 90 percent.
“With the latest iteration of the illegal Clean Power Plan 2.0 announced today, President Biden has inexplicably doubled down on his plans to shut down the backbone of America’s electric grid through unachievable regulatory mandates,” complained Senator Shelley Moore Capito, who represents coal-rich West Virginia.
“Electricity demand is set to skyrocket thanks in part to the EPA’s own electric vehicles mandate, and unfortunately, Americans are already paying higher utility bills under President Biden,” Capito added.
The lawmaker refers to reports that supposedly climate-friendly innovations such as electric vehicles (EVs) and heat pumps are driving a massive spike in electricity demand.
This development, in turn, is increasing emissions downstream at the power plant level.
IMPOSSIBLE DEMANDS
Biden reportedly agreed to target eliminating coal power by 2035 at a Group of Seven (G7) summit, suggesting he knows the industry will not be able to meet his regulatory demands.
While he was championing earlier regulations against American coal as Barack Obama’s vice president, Joe Biden’s son Hunter was inking lucrative contracts with Chinese coal firms part-owned by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Across the Atlantic, First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf is leaving office partly because he is abandoning unrealistic plans to slash carbon emissions by 75 percent by 2030 compared to 1990 levels.
The move, forced by rising energy costs, angered the Scottish Greens, a minor far-left party that he relied on for support in the Scottish Parliament.
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Biden just doing as he has been programed to do by the UN/CFR Globalists
What happens if the coal companies give a middle finger to the government and forced them to go to court? There is zero justification for these far-left regulations that have zero basis in any law passed by congress.