The Environmental Protection Agency, under the direction of President Joe Biden, released its final regulations for power plants on Thursday amid warnings from industry experts that the mandates will have a deleterious effect on the nation's energy needs.
The final rules include that all existing coal-fired and new natural gas-fired plants control 90% of their "carbon pollution" and implanting a 70% reduction in emissions for mercury from existing lignite-fired sources. While demanding reduced carbon is one thing, implementing the process across an entire grid is another. Edison Electric Institute noted that the carbon capture and storage technology cited in the new rules is "not yet ready for full scale, economy-wide deployment."
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