Smokestack emissions targeted

A new rule from the EPA would require coal-fired power plants to capture smokestack emissions or shut down.

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April 25, 2024 - 3:03 PM

While Attorney General Derek Schmidt celebrated, the Supreme Court decision limiting how the EPA can regulate power plant carbon emissions sparked upset from advocacy groups and Kansas Democrat candidates. Photo by (Jill Hummels for Kansas Reflector)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency.

New limits on greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-fired electric plants are the Biden administration’s most ambitious effort yet to roll back planet-warming pollution from the power sector, the nation’s second-largest contributor to climate change. The rules are a key part of President Joe Biden’s pledge to eliminate carbon pollution from the electricity sector by 2035 and economy-wide by…

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