Biden administration officials have consulted a number of left-wing environmental groups as they craft a rule forcing fossil fuel-fired power plants to substantially curb emissions.
Over the last two weeks, senior White House and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials have met with the organizations — including Climate Action Campaign, Union of Concerned Scientists, Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Clean Air Task Force and Evergreen Action — to discuss a highly-anticipated plan to tackle power plant emissions, according to federal filings. [emphasis, links added]
“Among all of those groups, there aren’t really any energy experts or electric grid experts or scientists. It’s activists who use environmental issues to advance the Democrat agenda,” Daniel Turner, the executive director of Power The Future, told Fox News Digital. “So, it’s totally unsurprising that these are the ones calling the shots.”
“It shows who’s really pulling the strings at the Biden White House,” he continued.
The most recent of the meetings, meanwhile, came Monday afternoon with leaders of the Climate Action Campaign, which advocates for federal policies that would replace the current U.S. power grid with one fueled only by green energy sources like wind and solar.
The group’s website argues that transitioning to a 100% green energy-powered grid is crucial for “ensuring a just, climate-safe future.”
Similarly, some of the other groups the White House has consulted with about its upcoming power plant rule have recently issued policy briefs arguing in favor of rapid decarbonization of the nation’s power grid.
The reports were attached as part of the federal filings reporting the meetings. …
The brief advocates for the federal government to pursue an aggressive regulatory framework ensuring 80% of the nation’s grid is fueled by green energy by 2030 and is completely carbon-free by 2035.
Another report, commissioned by the Sierra Club, criticized efforts to expand carbon capture technology to reduce emissions.
The Inflation Reduction Act, which President Biden signed into law last year, included sizable tax credits for carbon capture and storage, an advanced technology that reduces emissions from fossil fuel power plants. …
In addition to the environmental groups, White House officials also met with representatives of nine Democratic state attorneys general led by New York and California; the Edison Electric Institute, a trade group that advocates for a green transition; and various utility companies that have installed a large share of the nation’s green energy capacity in recent years.
The revelation that top administration officials have engaged with leading left-wing climate groups to craft the power plant rule, comes days after reports indicated the EPA is prepared to issue the most aggressive-ever power plant emissions reduction plan.
On Saturday, The New York Times reported the EPA is finalizing the plan that would require coal- and natural gas-fired power plants to cut or capture the vast majority of their carbon dioxide emissions by 2040.
The regulation, if finalized, would represent the first-ever federal action curbing power plant emissions.
Overall, there are 3,393 fossil fuel-fired power plants nationwide, the majority of which are natural gas plants, according to the most recent federal data.
Those plants generate more than 60% of the nation’s electricity, compared to the roughly 14% of electricity generated by wind and solar projects.
However, EPA data shows that the electric power sector accounts for about 25% of total U.S. emissions, placing it behind only the transportation sector and slightly ahead of the industrial sector.
As such, fossil fuel power plants have been targeted by environmentalists and Democratic lawmakers who argue that emissions must be reduced in an effort to stave off cataclysmic climate change.
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Clintons former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbit belonged to the League of Consevation Voters and the NRDC pulls off idiotic protests all the
time protests
I always thought that the left wing of politics was the one that looked after the health and wellbeing of the poor but here we have a case of the ‘Left’ doing all in their power to rob the poor of the little which they have.
My father used to quote a verse from the bible that went “Unto they that have shall it be given and from those who have not shall it be taken away even that which they have!”
L wing rot!
But very dangerous for the free world.
Provides insupeable reasons against Biden’s re election.