Prime Mover Institute’s Comment on the Proposed Rule Entitled: Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Fossil Fuel-Fired Electric Generating Units

In the Proposed Rule, EPA seeks to repeal the Biden-Era Clean Power Standards, which echoed and augmented the Obama administration’s overreach to directly killing coal and neutering natural gas. The proposed repeal returns EPA to the bounds of its statutory authority under the Clean Air Act (CAA), recent Supreme Court decisions, and technical and economic realities facing the U.S. power sector. In other words, it is a return to law and order in Constitutional governance. The Agency proposes to fix Biden’s EPA problems by: (1) concluding that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants do not contribute significantly to dangerous air pollution within the meaning of the CAA; and (2) finding that CPS relied on inadequately demonstrated technologies, imposed unreasonable costs, and threatened grid reliability and energy affordability.