Trump and Company REALLY do NOT care about our , and our children’s health and well being…
For them?
It’s about the MONEY NOT your Life or the planet’s Future….
The regulation aimed to limit greenhouse gas emissions from gas and coal plants, with the Biden administration’s EPA estimating it would have saved thousands of lives. Power plants are the second-largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States, after transportation.
In addition to that final repeal, the EPA also plans to issue a proposal to completely rescind the agency’s ability to regulate climate emissions of power plants in the first place, said the two people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
That would further solidify the repeal in February of the agency’s “endangerment finding,” which states that climate-related emissions endanger human health. That policy underpinned the vast majority of the federal government’s climate policies.
The EPA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Bloomberg News previously reported the planned regulatory changes.
Zeldin signaled last year that the agency would repeal the Biden-era power plant rules among a raft of several dozen proposals that he called “the largest deregulatory announcement in U.S. history.”
“We are proposing to repeal Obama and Biden rules that have been criticized as regulating coal, oil and gas out of existence,” Zeldin said in June 2025, when the agency formally proposed to rescind the power plant rules.
“Both proposed rules, if finalized, would deliver savings to American families on their electricity bills, and it will ensure they have the electricity that they need,” he said……
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“By eliminating the power plant pollution standards, Trump is choosing to allow preventable asthma attacks, heart disease, and even deaths,” said Zealan Hoover, a former EPA senior adviser under President Joe Biden, in a statement.
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