EPA short-circuits the U.S. power grid

On April 25, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched a blitz of regulations targeting the nation’s fossil-fuel power plants. And in the center of the EPA’s crosshairs is America’s coal fleet, which remains a workhorse source of power across the country—and the leading source of electricity in more than a dozen states.
EPA’s suite of rules—anchored by a series of unachievable and exorbitantly expensive technology mandates—will force the cl