FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2021 file photo, emissions from a coal-fired power plant are silhouetted against the setting sun in Independence, Mo. President Joe Biden faces a vexing task as he convenes a virtual climate summit on Thursday. He is expected to present a nonbinding but symbolic goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that will have a tangible impact not only on climate change efforts in the U.S. but throughout the world.
He says the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan 2.0 demand that existing coal-fired and new natural gas-fired power plants control 90% of their carbon pollution will be prohibitively expensive and require implementing technology that has never before been deployed at a commercial scale.
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