The Biden administration is removing existing natural gas facilities from a regulation requiring power plants to cut their emissions, weakening the rule as the agency punts consideration of the controversial provision.
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday that it will work to finalize standards to regulate pollution from existing coal and new gas-fired power plants in a rule that will come later this spring, but a regulation covering the entire fleet of natural gas facilities would be considered at a later date.
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