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The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday proposed eliminating greenhouse gas emissions limits for power plants as well as repealing a toughening of the mercury and air toxics standard for coal- and oil-fired generators.

“These Biden-era regulations have imposed massive costs on coal-, oil-, and gas-fired power plants, raising the cost of living for American families, imperiling the reliability of our electric grid, and limiting American energy prosperity,” the EPA said in a press release . . .

>The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday proposed eliminating greenhouse gas emissions limits for power plants as well as repealing a toughening of the mercury and air toxics standard for coal- and oil-fired generators. >“These Biden-era regulations have imposed massive costs on coal-, oil-, and gas-fired power plants, raising the cost of living for American families, imperiling the reliability of our electric grid, and limiting American energy prosperity,” the EPA said in a press release . . . [Archive](https://archive.today/kltqo)

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I wouldn't reduce mercury emissions.

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Stack Scrubbers still capture most of it. "Clean Coal".

The progressives were reducing legal emissions limits to beyond our technical capability to efficiently meet them ... with the intent to shutter all of our coal power plants.

IIRC, I've read multiple articles stating China is building a new unscrubbed coal plant every day.