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PARKERSBURG A local environmental group supports a federal court’s ruling overturning a Trump administration rule that loosened regulations for greenhouse gas emissions from fossil-fuel-fired power plants.
The Affordable Clean Energy Rule promulgated last year by the Environmental Protection Agency to replace the Obama-era Clean Power Plan on carbon dioxide emissions was flawed, an appeals court for the District of Columbia said this week. The decision sends the rule back to the EPA and reinstates the Clean Power Plan that requires, among other things, reductions of carbon dioxide emissions of about a third by 2030.
The appeals court “made an incredibly wise decision with regard to the Trump administration’s Affordable Clean Energy Rule,” said Eric Engle, chairman of Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Action, a local organization promoting awareness of climate change and what impacts climate.
Court Strikes Down Trump Rollback of Climate Regulations for Coal-Fired Power Plants
The ruling throws out the Affordable Clean Energy rule and directs the EPA to start over with its required regulation of greenhouse gases from electricity generation.
January 20, 2021
The Mount Storm coal fired power station sits on a man-made lake near Mount Storm, West Virginia. Credit: Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images
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On President Donald Trump’s last full day in office a federal appeals court landed a major blow to his administration’s deregulatory campaign by rejecting its boldest attempt to stymie climate regulation.
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EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler released a rule on industrial carbon emissions this week. Francis Chung/E&E News
Two years ago, EPA officials proposed relaxing Obama-era carbon regulations on new power plants after arguing that the rules relied on unready technology and would cripple the coal-fired power industry.
Then in a surprise move yesterday, the agency posted a final rule that does nothing to change those regulations.
Instead it doubles down on an issue that was raised only in a footnote in the December 2018 proposal: whether EPA should create a new metric for which industrial sectors contribute to climate change enough to trigger regulation.