Energy and Environment

Trump EPA outlines rule change to encourage new coal plants

By Josh Siegel

Published December 6, 2018 6:49pm ET

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Trump EPA outlines rule change to encourage new coal plants — In this Dec. 4, 2017 file photo, a large field of coal is stored on the property of Dominon Energy's Chesterfield Power station along the James River in Chester, Va. One of the biggest fights at the General Assembly this year is over electric rates and whether most Virginians are paying too much on their monthly bills. | (Steve Helber/AP)

The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed weakening an Obama-era rule that would have required new coal plants to be built with expensive technology that captures carbon emissions from their smokestacks.

EPA acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler introduced a replacement rule regulating emissions from new coal plants that would not force them to be built with carbon capture and storage, also known as CCS.

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