Power the Future (PTF), an energy advocacy organization, published a new report Thursday highlighting the severe negative impacts that the Biden administration’s proposal to reshape America’s power grid would have on energy reliability.
The PTF report, shared exclusively with the Daily Caller News Foundation, analyzes a May proposal from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that would force power plants to adopt expensive and generally unproven technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades. The proposal, which the EPA asserts will reduce emissions without necessarily forcing the replacement coal- and gas-fired plants with green energy generation, is a de facto end-run to achieve nearly identical policy outcomes to those envisioned by the Obama administration’s “Clean Power Plan,” which the Supreme Court shot down in West Virginia v. EPA, according to the PTF report.
“The EPA’s Clean Power Plan 2.0 is one of the most costly, infeasible and dangerous policies handed down by the Biden administration – and that is not a low bar,” Daniel Turner, PTF’s executive director, told the DCNF. “It would cede U.S. energy security to…
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