. According to America's Power, a coal industry trade association, almost half of U.S. electricity generation capacity from coal is already due to go offline by 2030.
In June, the EPA was brushed back by the Supreme Court on power plant regulation when the court's conservative majority ruled in"All of these [potential rules] should be understood as a body of regulation to get at greenhouse gas emissions, as climate change regulation," said Katie Tubb, a research fellow in the Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment at the conservative Heritage Foundation.
Activists say that the Biden administration would defend its regulatory record by noting that the first two years of the president's tenure have been marked by undoing the policies adopted under Trump, who opposed action to address climate change. In July, the Washington Post reported that since Biden took office, he has
Even so, experts caution that the regulatory process has to play out deliberately, because every new rule is liable to face a lawsuit arguing that the administration did not check all the boxes required by law. of federal coal ash regulations, with 91% of coal plants having ash landfills or waste ponds leaking arsenic, lead, mercury, selenium, and other metals into groundwater at dangerous levels.
“More is needed for the oil and gas leasing program to mirror our commitments to slash greenhouse-gas emissions,” Michael Freeman, a staff attorney at Earthjustice, wrote in an email to Yahoo News. “We are urging BLM to use its authority under the law to limit future leasing and drilling decisions so that lease sales are held or drilling approved only when it is consistent with U.S. domestic climate commitments, like the goal to reduce emissions 50% by 2030.
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