At the Campaign’s path last year, Donald Trump often criticized the Biden administration for new regulations targeting what he called “clean and beautiful coal.” In April, executive orders were signed to direct federal agencies to Returning any “discrimination” regulations against coal. Coal power plants produce a large share, but electricity decreases- About 16 percent in 2023 It is largely the most polluted and motivated element on the basis of the energy sector for every kilo.
Therefore, it was not surprising when the official of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zilden, gathered more than half of the Republican lawmakers of the Washington Agency, DC, the headquarters of the plan to cancel the planned cancellation of two bases, which were completed under the Biden Administration, which has placed boundaries on carbon and mercury emissions from the American Authority’s farms. Once you are completed, the Trump administration’s proposals will cancel all covers Greenhouse gases From plants and the return of mercury to a less strict standard than 2012, respectively.
Zeldeen said that the rules of the Biden era on Wednesday were “expensive, unreasonable and exhausted” to make all kinds of industries, including coal and more, disappear. ” With the demand for electricity that is preparing to refrain in the coming years, especially since technology companies are making huge investments in the artificial intelligence infrastructure, Zilden said that the proposals of the New Environmental Protection Agency will enhance the generation of electricity and “make America the capital of artificial intelligence in the world.”
His argument was repeated by the list of Republican lawmakers who followed him on the platform. The actor Troy Balsrson said that the old rules “would have been forced to generate the most efficient and reliable energy on early retirement, just as Ohio and the rest of the nation witness a historical rise in demand due to the artificial intelligence revolution, new data centers and the renewal of manufacturing.” “Between data centers, artificial intelligence, and the growing local manufacturing base, the simple fact is that we need more electrons on the network to operate all this,” added actor Robert Prigna from Pennsylvania.
But despite their strong agreement that there is a possible number of energy sources as possible to operate America’s future and to maintain facilities at reasonable prices, each actor spoke on Wednesday, just weeks ago, they made a vote on a major bill in Congress that will have almost an opposite impact. Analysts say this Suspended legislationThe title “One Big Beauty Bill Act”, will slow down the construction of new electricity sources in the country and lead the intermediate American family in the end to its tolerance Hundreds of dollars in additional annual energy costs.
This is because the legislation of the new Republican Party mainly eliminates the law of reducing inflation, which is the Law of the 2022 teacher that led to about 800 billion dollars of investments in clean energy technologies. By retracting the coal -powered energy regulations, it seems that the Republican Party’s hope is that some of these lost investments in energy can be compensated by fossil fuel. However, analysts agree that this is very unlikely, due to the enormous cost of new coal -powered energy, as well as supply bottlenecks that sharply limited the feasibility of new natural gas stations. Instead, the result is likely to be more expensive than electricity.
“The economies of coal factories are the worst they were at all,” said Ruby Orfes, the first director of modeling and analysis at Energy Innovation, a non -party research center. “Even just keeping the current coal factories online compared to building new renewable energy sources more expensive.”
To justify its cancellation of the greenhouse gas emissions base for power plants, the Environmental Protection Agency argues that the US Energy Sector is responsible for only 3 percent of global emissions, as a result is not a An important shareholder in air pollutionIt is the threshold that the clean air law sets when the government can organize a fixed source of emissions. While the number 3 percent is actually accurate, experts say the argument is misleading, especially since the energy sector is responsible for about a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions inside the country.
“Good, this will not achieve anything,” David Bouzakander, director of law and politics in the environmental integrity project, said.
If the American energy industry depends more on charcoal and natural gas in relation to renewable energy sources, as it seems that the Republicans are hoping, these emissions may remain highly high, especially with the growth of energy demand. The most trusted thing is that the costs will continue to rise. The latest government inflation data He explains that the electricity prices for the consumer It is already increasing significantly from consumer prices in general. In this environment, technology companies build huge data centers to operate cloud computing and Amnesty International I struggled to find adequate and cheap electricity. In fact, many power facilities are built that legislators in Virginia, which is located in the heart of the Data Center belt, have legislated Prevent them from the overwhelming network.
Since the facilities are unable to meet the energy needs of technical operators such as Microsoft, Google and Amazon Web Services, some of these companies have started directly Contracting with the developers of renewable energy sources and The amazing deals with nuclear power plants operators. A business group that represents these companies recently The Senate was asked to review suspended legislation Therefore, it restores some clean energy provisions from the law of reducing inflation, saying that the United States needs “affordable and reliable force” in order to “preserve its leadership in artificial intelligence.” Analysts say this leadership is threatened if the Trump administration continues to try to direct standards towards fossil fuels that do not compete with the latest energy sources.
“The current administration chooses the winners and losers in the field of technology and the making of bites,” said Orfes. “The barter they want to do is: getting rid of the clean energy tax incentives that drive all of this clean electricity on the network, which puts the declining pressure on the prices and will reduce the prices of people.”
Orfes added that the high electricity costs increase the cost of doing business for manufacturers, including those in the front edge of Amnesty International, making it difficult to compete with China.
“We are at a pivotal crossroads,” Urvis said. “We can either tend to the local growth of these industries and support it by creating a political environment with certainty, incentives and support. We can do what the current administration is trying to do, and retract all these things and allow China to enter.”
