{"id":576264,"date":"2023-05-12T10:04:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T04:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=576264"},"modified":"2023-05-12T10:50:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T05:20:41","slug":"in-major-climate-step-epa-proposes-1st-limits-on-greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-power-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/in-major-climate-step-epa-proposes-1st-limits-on-greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-power-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"In major climate step, EPA proposes 1st limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration proposed new limits on Thursday on greenhouse gas emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants, its most ambitious effort yet to roll back planet-warming pollution from the nation&#8217;s second-largest contributor to climate change.<\/p>\n<p>A rule unveiled by the Environmental Protection Agency could force power plants to capture smokestack emissions using a technology that has long been promised but is not in widespread use in the US.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This administration is committed to meeting the urgency of the climate crisis and taking the necessary actions required,&#8221; EPA Administrator Michael Regan said during Thursday&#8217;s announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration proposed new limits on Thursday on greenhouse gas emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants, its most ambitious effort yet to roll back planet-warming pollution from the nation&#8217;s second-largest contributor to climate change. A rule unveiled by the Environmental Protection Agency could force power plants to capture smokestack emissions using a technology that has long been promised but is not in widespread use in the US. &#8220;This administration is committed to meeting the urgency of the climate crisis and taking the necessary actions required,&#8221; EPA Administrator Michael Regan said during Thursday&#8217;s announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}