The Biden administration is narrowing the scope of its pending rule to cut greenhouse gases from the electricity sector as it develops a new initiative to set stronger pollution limits for natural gas plants.
The move by the Environmental Protection Agency includes delaying requirements for some existing gas plants that environmentalists say are urgently needed to slow global warming. Instead, agency officials say they will establish an additional, broader rule targeting every gas plant operating in the US, promising it will lead to far greater reductions in toxic pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions.
The two-fold strategy is an attempt ...
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