Abstract
A new US Environmental Protection Agency proposal aims to dramatically slash carbon emissions from coal-fired and natural gas–fired power plants. The regulations would require these plants to cut nearly all their carbon dioxide emissions by 2035. The proposal doesn’t specify how plants should meet the new regulations, but the agency says that it considered readily available emission control technologies when developing the new pollution standards. For example, companies can fit coal and gas plants with carbon capture and storage systems, which capture CO 2 before it leaves the smokestack. Older plants can be retired. According to a fact sheet provided by the EPA, the power sector is one of the country’s largest sources of greenhouse gases, responsible for 25% of emissions in 2021. By targeting this sector, the plan would prevent 617 million metric tons of CO 2 from entering the atmosphere by 2042, the EPA estimates. The proposal is
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