The Trump Environmental Protection Agency plans to abandon the limits of energy stations emissions

The United States was making strong carbon removal of the energy sector. It’s time to strike rewinding this. According to A report from the New York TimesThe Environmental Protection Agency, under the Trump Administration, has drafted a plan that eliminates all hats on greenhouse gas emissions from coal and gas stations.

The proposal, which comes under the leadership of the President of the New Environmental Protection Agency, Speaking of climate change for a long timeLee Zeldin suggests that emissions from power plants from burning fossil fuels “do not contribute significantly to dangerous pollution” – a statement that appears to indicate a good pollution, but this is completely another.

For all the TimesThe agency’s cancellation will apply to all criteria for greenhouse gas emissions that are currently applied to fossil fuel power plants. This would effectively retreat from many Biden administration’s work to clean the energy sector, including the requirements for decline in coal factories to capture carbon pollution before leaving their smoker and storing it, and the rules that require gas factories to use newer technologies that produce emissions.

“We are seeking to ensure that the agency follows the rule of law, while providing all Americans by reaching reliable energy at reasonable prices,” Zilden said in a statement to the Times newspaper.

The American energy sector is still one of the largest greenhouse gases in the country –The second in generalLive transport industry-is responsible for a quarter of all carbon emissions. Under Biden Administration standards, new power plants were more clean than the current infrastructure. According to a report from CleanView96 % of the new power plants built in 2024 was carbon -free. For each environment protection agency During the Biden era, its criteria require natural coal and coal power plants to control 90 % of carbon pollution, and find ways to capture or compensate for emissions.

These requirements can disappear completely under Trump, which opens the possibility of building dirty power plants without any efforts to mitigate possible damage.

Even if the Trump Environmental Protection Agency’s objection is that it is not believed that fossil fuel emissions contribute to climate change, there are still many harmful effects of dirty burning fuel that are real and inclination. A The study was published in 2023 I found that pollution resulting from coal -powered power plants is likely to lead to up to 460,000 excessive deaths, and the result is largely to the air -based pollution that is created by burning coal. So we forget the long-term destruction that will result from the most heated-people die because of these plants at the present time.