President Obama will now implement tough requirements for new coal-based power plants imposing strict limits on the amount of pollution that these plants are said to emit, and which affect global warming.
Considered to be an integral step to move away from what Obama describes as the limitless dumping of carbon pollution, this plan signifies a shift as to how Americans get electricity currently, from coal, to the future where their power will come from cleaner sources of energy.
However, this proposal, which will allow the Environmental Protection Agency to formulate rules until next summer, will not apply to power plants that already exist but forcing these plants to limit emissions won’t be far away once the first stage of this proposal is completed.
Even though there has been a prior proposal to this prior announcement, experts believe that this latest rule is just as strongly committed to moving away from using coal energy even though the ban on coal projects has been eliminated.
The reason for this proposal being just as effective is in order to meet the standards, coal plants will have install expensive technology to capture carbon-di-oxide and bury it underground.
None of the current plants have been able to do so because of the costs involved. As for those who have, and that the EPA considers to be potential models for other to imitate, have received millions of dollars in tax credits and government grants.
In comparison to cheap natural gas, coal’s share of generating electricity has been shrinking in recent times, and it seems as if power producers will have no option but to comply to pollution standards set by the EPA.