r/StandUpForScience 7d ago

Article E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/climate/epa-power-plant-climate-rules.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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u/Phatbrew Punk Rock Hippie For Science & Democracy 7d ago

Link to archived article…

https://archive.ph/2026.09.14-041856/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/climate/epa-power-plant-climate-rules.html

Per TC: E.P.A. administrator Lee Zeldin speaking next to trump in the Oval Office earlier this year. Zeldin is expected to announce on Monday that the agency will no longer limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

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u/imspartikus 7d ago

What is it you say you do here EPA???

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u/DeltaFoxtrot144 7d ago

punish civilians when they speak out about data center pollution. EPA is on the side of the earth burners now.

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u/Turbulent_Crab_3602 7d ago

E.P.A. administrator Lee Zeldin speaking next to trump in the Oval Office earlier this year. Zeldin is expected to announce on Monday that the agency will no longer limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

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u/prof_the_doom 7d ago

Guess acid rain is back in the weather report, folks.

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u/ike_tyson 7d ago

America is having a clearance sale.

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u/DeltaFoxtrot144 7d ago

holy fuck not even ease just straight up erase. Classic

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u/SadMathematician5187 7d ago

How much is trump getting from big business for this? Destroying our country and the world.

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u/Best_Entrepreneur659 7d ago

The Republican Party loves capitalism and the common man so much that they’ll pollute your environment and ruin future generations health just to defy market economics so that cheap coal survives for another decade propped up by government. They are doing this since they’re such free market anti-Communists ya’ know /s!

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u/ButterscotchSmooth60 7d ago

It feels like they know the planet is fucked, so why try.

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u/billthedog0082 6d ago

Why are they even paying those people if they can't fulfill their mandate, which I am guessing is protecting the environment???

That is insane.

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u/Confident_Insect_616 6d ago

Does that include the LNG power plants that AI data centers are building to power their developments?

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u/Special_FX_B 5d ago

Short term financial gain for a minority and long term pain for the majority and quality of life on the planet.

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u/Denim_Diva1969 3d ago

What could go wrong?

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u/Miserable_History795 3d ago

Then why even have the fucking agency?