Biden's EPA Climate Rule Faces Opposition from Senator Manchin and Aims to Cut Power Plant Pollution.

The Biden administration is set to release the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed rules for power plants, which will require utilities to either reduce or capture their planet-warming pollution. The proposal will push utilities to capture a share of their carbon pollution before it escapes into the sky. The rules will face scrutiny for whether it complies with the realities of the power industry and Supreme Court restrictions on the agency's authority. The proposal will not explicitly force coal plants to close, but it will require them to retrofit to capture their emissions. Gas plants will also have to capture carbon if they run most of the time. EPA will allow power companies and state regulators to meet the rules' standards any way they like, as the Clean Air Act mandates.