Biden's EPA regulations prioritize gas, carbon capture, and hydrogen while threatening US power grid.

The Biden administration's proposed rules to regulate power plant pollution from existing plants would cut carbon pollution by 90% from existing coal plants by the end of the decade, unless a plant sets a retirement date before 2040. Existing gas plants get more leeway, with only the largest gas plants having to slash their pollution by 90% by 2035. The rules highlight carbon capture and storage and hydrogen as options for utilities to use at gas and coal plants. However, the rules fall short of Biden's 2035 clean grid goal, and Senator Joe Manchin has opposed them, promising to oppose all EPA nominees going forward.