The Environmental Protection Agency has repealed pollution standards for fossil fuel power plants, a measure the Trump administration argues will strengthen the power grid and lower costs for customers. But environmentalists say it will worsen climate change.

The EPA announced on Monday at the G20 Ministerial Meeting on Energy Abundance in Houston, Texas, a final rule repealing regulations on carbon and toxic emissions from fossil fuel plants. The action would represent one of the Trump administration’s biggest blows yet against emissions reduction regulations put in place by Democrats.

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