{"id":1929968,"date":"2023-05-12T17:12:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T21:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-rolls-out-new-restrictions-on-oil-coal-natural-gas\/"},"modified":"2023-05-12T17:16:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T21:16:30","slug":"biden-admin-rolls-out-new-restrictions-on-oil-coal-natural-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-rolls-out-new-restrictions-on-oil-coal-natural-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden imposes new limits on fossil fuels."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admin-rolls-out-new-restrictions-on-oil-coal-natural-gas%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1929968&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2> EPA Unveils Strictest-Ever Rules for Power Production <\/h2>\n<p> The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released its strictest-ever rules for power produced using natural gas, coal, and oil. The standards, released on May 11, will affect new and old power infrastructure, including new natural gas turbines and the country\u2019s existing coal fleet. The EPA hopes to induce U.S. power plants to boost their use of certain technologies, including the co-firing of fossil fuels with low-greenhouse gas hydrogen and the capture, sequestration, and storage of carbon. <\/p>\n<h3> What the EPA Proposals Mean <\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> The EPA\u2019s proposals are intended to induce U.S. power plants to boost their use of certain technologies, including the co-firing of fossil fuels with low-greenhouse gas hydrogen and the capture, sequestration, and storage of carbon. <\/li>\n<li> The agency projects that the standards will help the United States avoid thousands of premature deaths, tens of thousands of lost workdays, and more than 300,000 asthma attacks just in the year 2030. <\/li>\n<li> The EPA stated that its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-epa-announces-toughest-ever-rules-for-power-plant-emissions\/\" title=\"Biden's EPA sets strictest power plant emission rules.\">proposal offers \u201cample lead time<\/a> and substantial compliance flexibilities.\u201d <\/li>\n<li> The proposals come against a backdrop of various major EPA actions bearing on fossil fuels, including new tailpipe emission standards. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> The EPA\u2019s proposals are intended to induce U.S. power plants to boost their use of certain technologies, including the co-firing of fossil fuels with low-greenhouse gas hydrogen and the capture, sequestration, and storage of carbon. The agency projects that the standards will help the United States avoid thousands of premature deaths, tens of thousands of lost workdays, and more than 300,000 asthma attacks just in the year 2030. <\/p>\n<p> The EPA stated that its proposal offers \u201cample lead time and substantial compliance flexibilities.\u201d That might appear to conflict with President Joe Biden\u2019s aim of achieving \u201ca <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-unveils-plans-to-make-federal-government-carbon-neutral-in-30-years\/\" title=\"Biden Unveils Plans To Make Federal Government Carbon Neutral In 30 Years\">carbon pollution-free electricity sector<\/a> by 2035,\u201d as expressed in a 2021 executive order. EPA officials and staff told reporters on May 10 that the ambition was still within reach. <\/p>\n<h3> Reaction to the EPA Proposals <\/h3>\n<p> Fossil fuel advocates greeted the EPA\u2019s latest with skepticism. \u201cPresident Joe Biden\u2019s plans to restrict carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, and the inevitable support from environmental organizations, illustrates what is wrong with the so-called green movement,\u201d Tom Harris of the International Climate Science Coalition said in an April statement. <\/p>\n<p> Meanwhile, some environmental groups have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-rolls-out-new-restrictions-on-oil-coal-natural-gas\/\" title=\"Biden imposes new limits on fossil fuels.\">rejected carbon capture technology altogether<\/a>. \u201cCarbon capture is nothing more than a handout to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-climate-agenda-wont-replace-jobs-it-seeks-to-kill-separate-ap-wapo-fact-checks-suggest\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Climate Agenda Won\u2019t Replace Jobs It Seeks To Kill, Separate AP, WaPo Fact-Checks Suggest\">fossil fuel industry<\/a>. It perpetuates environmental racism by increasing pollution in communities of color, raising energy bills, and diverting resources away from real solutions,\u201d the Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition wrote on Twitter in April. <\/p>\n<p> Other environmental organizations have voiced support for the proposed changes. \u201cThese new rules will benefit the climate, the environment, and communities all around the country\u2014particularly those near the power plants,\u201d Paul Arbaje of the Union of Concerned Scientists wrote in a \u201cDisinformation Alert\u201d aimed at criticisms of the rules. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks of buildup, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled its strictest-ever rules for power produced using natural gas, coal, and oil that could spur the use of carbon capture technologies. 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