Proposed EPA carbon standards may have positive impact on Texas

Environmental leaders in Texas say the proposed rule on carbon missions announced this week by the Environmental Protection Agency will bring positive impacts to the Lone Star State.
The goal of the rule is to clean up carbon pollution from primarily coal-burning power plants, said Janice Bezanson, executive director of the Texas Conversation Alliance.
“The EPA rule is especially important in Texas,” she said. “Scientists are becoming increasingly convinced that our recent droughts are due to climate change. If that’s true, we’re going to need to be actively reversing the effects of climate change.”
The EPA says power plants emit about one-third of carbon emissions in the United States related to climate change, and the rule aims to reduce that total by one-third. The agency is taking comments on the proposal for the next four months.
Among the criticisms of the draft rule is that it will lead to higher prices for electricity, but Bezanson predicted that the change will spur growth among the cleaner and greener sources.
 

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