WASHINGTON, D.C. – Power the Future today released a new report, EPA’s Clean Power Plan 2.0: A Green Disaster for America, highlighting the devastating impact the Biden Administration’s proposed Clean Power Plan 2.0 will have on U.S. grid reliability and energy security. The report outlines the fundamental flaws in the EPA’s legally questionable proposal, which relies on unproven technology to force affordable, abundant forms of U.S. energy, including coal and natural gas, out of use.
“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,” said Daniel Turner, Founder and Executive Director for Power The Future. “It would cede U.S. energy security to communist China, making America more reliant on imported critical minerals and rare earth elements to power our electric grid. At the same time, Americans would face more blackouts and brownouts, and higher electricity bills, as reliable coal and natural gas plants are forced to shut down. Handing hostile foreign countries a payday at the expense of U.S. national security to appease the radical eco-left is, unfortunately, par for the course for President Biden. If the EPA refuses to back down on this misguided proposal, Congress should use every tool it has to hold President Biden and his administration accountable.”
Key experts from the report underscore how the Biden Administration’s CPP 2.0:
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Increases U.S. Dependence on China: “With law and electric reliability as an afterthought (if that), Biden’s EPA is forging a horrific mandate that will surely endanger America’s national security. That’s because forcing the retirement of coal and natural gas power plants means, or so the Biden Administration believes, greater reliance on renewable energy—and therefore, greater economic reliance on Communist China.”
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Relies on Unproven and Unworkable Technology: “The plan is to require emissions controls that are commercially unavailable at-scale and technologically infeasible for power plants that use coal and natural gas. EPA’s obstinate refusal to acknowledge the shortcomings of these technologies not only ignores the law, but the tenuous stability of the nation’s electric grid, which the CPP 2.0 will surely worsen to the detriment of consumers and energy security.”
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Undermines Grid Reliability: “EPA’s ‘impossible proposal,’ as the attorneys general of 21 states commented, ‘will leave coal-and natural-gas plants with no other option but to close.’ This will mean a less reliable grid and higher costs for consumers. All during a time of increased population growth and energy demand.”
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Defies the Supreme Court Ruling in West Virginia v. EPA: “In the face of West Virginia, Biden’s EPA is blatantly flouting the unambiguous judicial command to stay within the statutory limits Congress prescribed. Instead, the agency is proposing new emissions standards that can’t be achieved, at a cost that will squeeze consumers during high inflation, compromise grid reliability, and dangerously increase America’s energy dependence on China, all while having virtually no impact on climate change.”
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