Inside EPA’s climate strategy for power plants
10/24/2022
EPA’s game plan to comprehensively attack pollution from the coal-fired power industry began to take shape almost immediately following President Joe Biden’s inauguration, recently released records show.
In early February 2021, senior EPA appointees briefed White House officials on a strategy that would tap a variety of statutes and programs to cut power plant emissions of greenhouse gases and hazardous air pollutants, curb toxic water discharges, and address the massive amounts of coal ash piled up in landfills and storage ponds around the country, according to a slide deck prepared for the meeting.
