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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator under President Trump, overseeing rollbacks of federal environmental and emissions regulations.
The agency is finalizing its repeal of the Biden-era greenhouse gas rules for power plants and proposing to eliminate what remains, opening a 45-day comment window as US electricity demand climbs again.
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The EPA finalized its repeal of the 2024 power plant carbon standards on Monday. The case that this is a supply decision for AI load comes from a sustainability consultant who gives coal three to five more years.
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The Environmental Protection Network says 17 of those actions name AI or data centers outright, and the remedy it proposes is a voluntary pledge for the White House to sign. The health figures it cites come from academic modelling.
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The agency says it is only handing minor-source permitting back to the states, and for a siting team the practical effect is that opposition arrives later, in court and at the ballot box, instead of in a hearing room.
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The rule the agency wants to drop is the one that produced thousands of comments on xAI's Tennessee permit. Dropping it does not remove that opposition; it pushes it past the point a schedule can absorb.
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Making minor-source disclosure voluntary hands the call to states and hides the permit-splitting that turned Northern Virginia into a 27-gigawatt diesel fleet.
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