Donald Trump covers runs to keep coal -fired power plants running

The government of President Donald Trump wants to abolish the environmental regulations to reduce soot and greenhouse gas emissions from US coal-fired power plants in order to keep some of the country’s dirtiest power plants into operation.

The environmental protection authority EPA announces that it wants to revise the soot and greenhouse gas limit values ​​introduced by the former President Joe Biden. This step is part of a comprehensive deregulation program with which the industry is to be boosted from coal to the manufacturing trade and the country’s oil and mineral production is to be increased.

Among other things, more exhaust gases in cars and trucks and larger funding quantities for oil and gas companies, as the chief of the authorities Lee Zeldin announced, are to be allowed again. He said it was the “most serious deregulation day in American history”.

The 31 proposals include that coal -fired power plants should no longer work almost climate -neutral by 2032. In addition, the administration should no longer be able to regulate waterways and wetlands at the federal level. Zeldin promised that the intended changes would save gigantic sums that would currently have to be shouldered to maintain regulations and as “hidden taxes” by companies and consumers.

US President Donald Trump had repeatedly promised considerable cuts in environmental policy and the expansion of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas in the election campaign last year. He had the United States left out of the Paris climate protection agreement and describes the environmental protection measures of predecessor governments of the Democrats combined as “Green New Deal” as “Green New Scam” (“new green fraud”).

According to a report, the year 2024 was the warmest year ever and the first one that was an average of over 1.5 degrees worldwide than in pre -industrial means.