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The Trump campaign is promising to rescind Biden administration energy-sector regulations intended to curtail greenhouse gas emissions to help the nation reach international climate targets.
The move, if former President Donald Trump is reelected, would set a future Trump administration for a repeat of its first-term policies, in which a number of previous regulations related to energy and climate were either scrapped or weakened.
On a call with reporters ahead of Trump’s campaign speech Thursday in Potterville, Mich., former Trump administration Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said current EPA regulations would force the retirement of power plants, ultimately requiring utilities to shift to an inadequate supply of “unreliable” wind, solar and battery storage.
“A tsunami of new demand is headed for the grid, from the AI revolution, residential electrification and electric vehicle mandates,” Bernhardt said. “And at the exact same time of these new demands, the Biden-Harris administration has put severe constraints on the ability of the grid to grow.”
He said Trump would “rescind every one of Joe Biden’s industry-killing, job-killing, pro-China and anti-American electricity regulations.”
In April, the EPA finalized rules for existing coal-fired and new natural gas-fired power plants that would eventually require them to capture 90 percent of their carbon emissions. These rules were criticized by Republicans in Congress, who accused the agency of setting unrealistic targets that would require coal plants in particular to shut down years ahead of schedule. […]
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