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President Biden's EPA has proposed new rules to limit global warming pollution from power plants, and if done right, they could eliminate up to 90% of global warming pollution from the electric sector!

But, as usual, the Biden Administration is paying more heed to corporate profits than they are to cutting pollution. Check out more links and resourced below and in the blog, but click here soon to get your comment in ASAP – comments are due one week from today on August 8!

We made a short video and a longer written post to explain the context and what we think needs to be changed, but here's the short version for your busy inbox:

President Biden promised to cut global warming pollution 50% by 2030, and to eliminate all global warming pollution from the electricity sector by 2035. But because of a prior Supreme Court ruling, the EPA can't tell utilities what fuel to use (like solar instead of fossil fuels) in order to provide that electricity. So, instead, the draft rules from the EPA focus on how much air pollution, including global warming pollution, that power plants can emit.

The draft rules are a big step in the right direction, requiring 90-100% reductions in emissions. But there are three big loopholes that the EPA needs to fix:

1. The new rules need to start immediately and require full compliance with the rule by 2030, not 2035.

2. The EPA must make sure the rule applies to plants that produce 85-100MW, down from 300MW, so that smaller gas plants are covered.

3. Biden needs to stop supporting false solutions like hydrogen and carbon capture and storage.

Click here and enter your contact information and we'll create a sample comment for you to edit. Make sure to add your own thoughts but make sure you submit your comment before the deadline on August 8!

Thanks for taking action,

Drew and the 198 ways to clean up a power plant crew

Sources

1. https://www.198methods.org/2023/02/04/nerdy-tweets-and-utility-actions-in-a-post-inflation-reduction-act-world/
2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/01/senate-republicans-urge-epa-withdraw-climate-rule-power-plants/
3. https://www.198methods.org/2023/06/28/the-epa-is-selling-out-louisiana-for-false-climate-solutions/
4. https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/14/politics/biden-clean-electricity-goal-report-card-climate/index.html

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