In the latest push for economic suicide in the name of fighting climate change,
President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency just unveiled rules aimed at shutting down most of America’s electric plants even if we can’t replace them in time.
The EPA rule would require coal- and natural gas-fired power plants to slash their carbon emissions to near-zero within the next decade, or close.
In theory, it gives them the option to install carbon-capture tech to reach its goal (and gas plants the chance to just burn more hydrogen in their mix), but the necessary technology is nowhere
close to off-the-shelf yet, and may never be.
Plus, it requires building more pipelines to haul off the captured carbon, and building that infrastructure would be another costly and legally-fraught task.