Former President Joe Biden and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. (Getty Images)
The Clean Power 2.0 plan followed the 2015 Clean Power Plan under the Obama administration, which worked to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants and set national standards for carbon emissions. The Supreme Court in 2022, however, struck down the Clean Power Plan in the case West Virginia v. EPA, curbing the agency's ability to broadly regulate carbon emissions.
"The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the 2015 Clean Power Plan in West Virginia v. EPA, holding that the major questions doctrine barred EPA from misusing the Clean Air Act to manipulate Americans’ energy choices and shift the balance of the nation’s electrical fuel mix," the EPA noted in its press release. "The Biden Administration issued its own rule in 2024 which many critics say is just another attempt to achieve the unlawful fuel-shifting goals of the Clean Power Plan."
The EPA continued in its press release that the Trump administration's executive orders and actions to "Power the Great American Comeback," combined with the announcement putting the Biden administration's "Woke Green Agenda" under reconsideration, marks the "most consequential day of deregulation in U.S. history."
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"These announcements represent the greatest and most consequential day of deregulation in the history of the United States," the press release stated. "While accomplishing EPA’s core mission of protecting the environment, the agency is committed to fulfilling President Trump’s promise to unleash American energy, lower costs for Americans, revitalize the American auto industry, restore the rule of law, and give power back to states to make their own decisions."
Former Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., President Donald Trump's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency, appears before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, in Washington. (Mark Schiefelbein/The Associated Press)
"This termination is based on substantial concerns regarding program integrity, objections to the award process, programmatic fraud, waste and abuse and misalignment with the agency's priorities, which collectively undermine the fundamental goals and statutory objectives of the awards," Zeldin said in a video announcement Tuesday.
"The EPA will once again be an exceptional steward of your tax dollars. I will have it no other way," Zeldin said.
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