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Coal ash swirls on the surface of the Dan River following one of the worst coal-ash spills in U.S. history into the river in Danville, Va., Feb. 5, 2014. The Environmental Protection Agency is moving to strengthen a rule aimed at controlling and cleaning up toxic waste from coal-fired power plants. A proposed rule announced Wednesday, May 17, 2023, would require safe management of so-called coal ash dumped in areas that currently are unregulated at the federal level. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome) **FILE**

EPA rule would force clean-up of toxic waste dumped near coal-fired power plants

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Steam is emitted from smokestacks at a coal-fired power plant Nov. 17, 2021, in Craig, Colo. President Joe Biden is promising “strong executive action” to combat climate change, despite dual setbacks that have restricted his ability to regulate carbon emissions and boost clean energy such as wind and solar power. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) **FILE**

EPA green rules increase blackout risks; emission caps on reliable fuels will shut down power plants

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

FILE - The U.S. Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 2, 2023. The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to a California animal cruelty law that affects the pork industry, ruling that the case was properly dismissed by lower courts. Pork producers had said that the law could force industry-wide changes and raise the cost of bacon and other pork products nationwide. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File Photo)

Supreme Court moves to reestablish rule of law in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan testifies on Capitol Hill, March 22, 2023, in Washington. The Biden administration is proposing new limits on greenhouse gas emissions from coal and gas-fired power plants, its most ambitious effort yet to roll back planet-warming pollution from the nation's second-largest contributor to climate change. A rule to be unveiled Thursday, May 11, by the EPA could force power plants to capture smokestack emissions using a technology that has long been promised but is not in widespread use in the U.S. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana. File)

Biden unveils sweeping EPA rules to force power plants to slash nearly all emissions

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan testifies on Capitol Hill, March 22, 2023, in Washington. The Biden administration is proposing new limits on greenhouse gas emissions from coal and gas-fired power plants, its most ambitious effort yet to roll back planet-warming pollution from the nation's second-largest contributor to climate change. A rule to be unveiled Thursday, May 11, by the EPA could force power plants to capture smokestack emissions using a technology that has long been promised but is not in widespread use in the U.S. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana. File)

In major climate step, EPA proposes 1st limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., left, chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, is joined by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., the ranking member, as the panel hears from Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on President Joe Biden's budget request for 2024, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 2, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Manchin vows to oppose Biden EPA nominees over ‘radical climate agenda’ against power plants

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

A worker walks near pumpjacks operating at the Kern River Oil Field in Bakersfield, Calif., Jan. 16, 2015. The oil and gas industry’s emissions are a main cause of climate change and in the past the industry undermined sound evidence that carbon greenhouse gases warm the atmosphere. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Biden’s new carbon capture rules for gas power plants face permit delays

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

EPA Regulatory Overreach Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System does more harm than good

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sign outside the Andrew W. Breidenbach Environmental Research Center, Friday, Feb. 17, 2023, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

House fails to override Biden veto of bill targeting EPA authority over waterways

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

An electric vehicle charges at an EVgo fast charging station in Detroit on Nov. 16, 2022. The Biden administration is proposing strict new automobile pollution limits that would require as many as two-thirds of new vehicles sold in the U.S. to be electric by 2032 — a nearly tenfold increase over current EV sales, according to an announcement from the Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday, April 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Stiff EPA emission limits to boost U.S. electric vehicle sales

By Matthew Daly and Tom Krisher - Associated Press

Emissions from a coal-fired power plant are silhouetted against the setting sun in Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 1, 2021. The Environmental Protection Agency is tightening rules that limit emissions of mercury and other harmful pollutants from coal-fired power plants, updating standards imposed more than a decade ago. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

EPA proposes limiting chemical plant pollution

By Michael Phillis - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks about the evacuation of American citizens, their families, SIV applicants and vulnerable Afghans in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Aug. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Biden vetoes measure seeking to rollback EPA authority on waterways

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Environmental Protection Agency administrator Michael Regan testifies before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing to examine President Joe Biden's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2024 for the Environmental Protection Agency, on Capitol Hill, March 22, 2023, in Washington. The Environmental Protection Agency is tightening rules that limit emissions of mercury and other harmful pollutants from coal-fired power plants, updating standards imposed more than a decade ago. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana. File)

EPA tightens mercury emissions limits at coal power plants

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

A lead water service line from 1927 lays on the ground on a residential street after being removed on June 17, 2021, in Denver. Some 9.2 million lead pipes carry water into homes across the U.S., with more in Florida than any other state, according to a new Environmental Protection Agency survey that will dictate how billions of dollars to find and replace those pipes are spent. (AP Photo/Brittany Peterson, File)

Florida has most lead pipes in U.S., EPA survey finds

By Michael Phillis - Associated Press

A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sign outside the Andrew W. Breidenbach Environmental Research Center, Friday, Feb. 17, 2023, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Biden suffers new bipartisan blow as Senate rolls back EPA authority

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan testifies before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing to examine President Joe Biden's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2024 for the Environmental Protection Agency, on Capitol Hill Wednesday, March 22, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

GOP senators grill Biden EPA chief over ‘eye-watering’ budget request

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Illustration on Biden policy and the price of gasoline by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Biden’s latest fuel proposal promises to drive gasoline prices higher

By Derrick Morgan

Michael Regan, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, announces the Biden administration is launching a broad strategy to regulate toxic industrial compounds associated with serious health conditions that are used in products ranging from cookware to carpets and firefighting foams during an event at N.C. State University, Oct. 18, 2021, in Raleigh, N.C. The EPA on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, proposed limiting the amount of harmful “forever chemicals” in drinking water to the lowest level that tests can detect. (Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP, File)

EPA to limit toxic ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water

By Michael Phillis and Matthew Daly - Associated Press

In this Sept. 21, 2017, file photo, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Building is shown in Washington. Two high-ranking Trump political appointees at the EPA engaged in fraudulent payroll activities, including payments to employees after they were fired and to one of the officials when he was absent from work, that cost the agency more than $130,000, a report by an internal watchdog says. Former chief of staff Ryan Jackson and former White House liaison Charles Munoz submitted “official timesheets and personnel forms that contained materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements&quot; to mislead EPA personnel and facilitate improper payments over multiple months, according to a report by EPA’s Office of Inspector General. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Biden wants to beef up EPA staff with 2,400 new agents

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

A great egret flies above a great blue heron in a wetland inside the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge in Trenton, Mich., on Oct. 7, 2022. The House on March 9, 2023, voted to overturn the Biden administration’s protections for thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways, advancing long-held Republican arguments that the regulations are an environmental overreach and burden to business. The vote was 227-198 to overturn the rule. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Biden environmental rule on wetlands suffers bipartisan setback in House

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times