The rollback overturns
2024 Biden-era standards, which aimed to reduce carbon emissions from power plants by compelling coal and new gas-powered plants to either cut or use emissions technology to
capture 90% of their climate pollution.
Power plants are the second largest source of planet-heating pollution in the US, after transportation, making up nearly 25% of the nation’s climate pollution. US power plants alone contribute 3% of total global climate pollution.
The current rollback is happening as the Trump administration pushes for more fossil fuels, notably coal, the most polluting fossil fuel.