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The Biden administration is facing some major pushback from within its own ranks over its grand plan to put an end to power plant emissions. A whole bunch of unknown officials in the Biden administration have been sounding off about how their sweeping new rule to effectively ban fossil fuel-fired power plants by 2040 might not be as realistic as they are making it out to be.
It turns out that a bunch of these mystery officials have some serious doubts about being able to fully replace fossil fuels in the electricity sector in the next 15 years. Basically, they are saying that the technology needed to make this happen is either way too pricey or just not feasible on a big enough scale. They are talking about things like hydrogen combustion and carbon capture, utilization, and storage. The Institute for Energy Research even says the administration is dead set on getting rid of fossil fuels, even when their own advisors are waving red flags in their faces.
Biden officials warned against EPA’s plan to ban fossil fuels from electrical gridhttps://t.co/sEP2hoEMI8 pic.twitter.com/Wc17tPV8tf
— The Washington Times (@WashTimes) December 17, 2023
You’ve got one administration official saying carbon capture hasn’t met the legal threshold for being considered the best way to reduce emissions, and another one warning that hydrogen combustion hasn’t been proven to work on a big enough scale. The House Lawmakers are so concerned about all of this that they want the names of these skeptical officials to be revealed. They’re all like, “Hey, if these guys are saying the rule can’t be enforced, then why is the EPA going ahead with it?”
The Biden administration wants to tackle pollution by making power plants switch to clean hydrogen and other stuff to cut down on emissions, but these mystery officials aren’t convinced that these alternative technologies are workable enough to keep power plants open. And to top it all off, if the rule goes into effect, it’s gonna face a whole lot of legal challenges.
So, looks like the Biden administration’s got some trouble brewing in its own ranks when it comes to their grand plan to clean up power plants. We’ll just have to wait and see how this all pans out, but it’s definitely not smooth sailing for the administration right now!
