Trump EPA’s arguments for letting power plants spew unlimited pollution ‘dead wrong’ | US Environmental Protection Agency | The Guardian

Claims that dismantling pollution rules will lower energy bills and have little climate impact are far from convincing ... Wed 16 Sep 2026 08.00 EDTLast modified on Wed 16 Sep 2026 08.01 EDT ... On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it would erase any limits on emissions from coal and gas plants that are dangerously heating up our planet. This move, which follows a similar dismantling of pollution limits from cars ands trucks, is part of a broader push to eliminate the longstanding legal authority of this, or any future, US administration to deal with the climate crisis. ... Yet the EPA’s own analysis, published with the new rule, outlines a very different picture. Retail electricity prices will actually be 0.7% higher in 2030, rather than lower, as a result of the administration’s rule change, it shows. Power prices won’t drop until the mid 2030s and beyond, the document states. ... The EPA has said the reversal of Joe Biden-era carbon pollution standards, set in 2