The Biden administration proposed new rules Thursday to drastically cut emissions from fossil fuel power plants, a major component of the president’s climate change agenda to achieve a zero-emission electrical grid by 2035.
said. “And a key part of our role is ensuring that all people in this country have clean air to breathe.”
A Democrat has emerged as one of the fiercest critics of the proposal: Sen. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia. The Senate Energy Committee chairman has vowed to oppose all of Mr. Biden’s future nominees for thewho require confirmation, a move that could cause headaches for the president with Democrats’ one-seat majority in the chamber.
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