The US Environmental Protection Agency will “reconsider” a rule limiting CO2 emissions from power plants, the federal agency said on March 12, advancing President Donald Trump’s vow to undo the landmark climate regulation.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the agency would review the 2024 carbon standard along with more than two dozen other Biden administration actions, including its regulations on power plants’ mercury emissions and wastewater, and its tailpipe emissions rules for vehicles.
Zeldin also vowed to go after the EPA’s landmark 2009 “endangerment finding,” which gave the agency the statutory authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.