Climate crisis paranoia, or at least some of the policies it has spawned, could soon be heading for the long grass in the USA if voters so choose. The pretence of governments being able to adjust the weather by decree would be dropped.
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Donald Trump would rescind many of President Joe Biden’s clean energy policies regarding emissions and power plants while speeding up approvals for “hundreds of new power plants,” if he is elected president, the Trump campaign said this week. OilPrice.com reporting.
If elected in November, Trump “will immediately stop all Biden-Harris policies that distort energy markets, limit consumer choice and drive up the costs on consumers on day one,” David Bernhardt, a former Interior Department secretary in Trump’s first term in office said in a call organized by the campaign, as carried by Reuters.
A second Trump administration would also accelerate approvals of energy projects and “greenlight the construction of hundreds of new power plants,” Bernhardt said, without giving details about what type of energy these plants would use.
Under President Biden, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced in April final rules on emissions reductions of power plants which would force coal-fired power plants that plan to run in the long-term and all new baseload gas-fired plants to capture most of their carbon [dioxide] emissions.
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Trump is expected to overturn or at least try to dismantle many of President Biden’s energy and climate policies.
The Biden Administration’s methane rules, LNG export pause, EV mandates, federal oil and gas leasing, and even the Inflation Reduction Act or parts of it could be all on the chopping block in a second Trump term in office.
Full report here.
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Image: Solar power complex in California [credit: USA. Gov. – Bureau of Land Management]
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August 31, 2024 at 05:59AM
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