{"id":294085,"date":"2025-06-12T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=294085"},"modified":"2025-06-12T11:33:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T16:33:53","slug":"armstrong-applauds-epas-repeal-of-biden-reg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=294085","title":{"rendered":"Armstrong Applauds EPA&#8217;s Repeal of Biden Regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/armstorngEPA51225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/armstorngEPA51225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-293370\" width=\"316\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/armstorngEPA51225.jpg 569w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/armstorngEPA51225-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/armstorngEPA51225-209x175.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Bismarck &#8211; Gov. Kelly Armstrong issued the following statement today after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency <a href=\"https:\/\/links-1.govdelivery.com\/CL0\/https:%2F%2Fwww.epa.gov%2Fnewsreleases%2Fepa-proposes-repeal-biden-harris-epa-regulations-power-plants-which-if-finalized-would%3Futm_medium=email%26utm_source=govdelivery\/1\/01000197607f00b7-dc4e1e65-ac46-4089-a153-5aa1705adaa7-000000\/7oLvD1vhSWba_jnG_k8vZDWoRZe9P-PtH1ch8g3EJV8=409\">announced its proposal<\/a> to repeal two burdensome Biden-era power plant regulations known as \u201cClean Power Plan 2.0\u201d and Mercury and Air Toxic Standards (MATS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcement comes one month after Armstrong and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin met in Washington, D.C., discussing the need to repeal the Biden administration\u2019s onerous and overreaching rules on power plants, especially those designed to phase out coal-fired power plants like those in North Dakota that provide critical baseload generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is what smart federal regulatory reform looks like,\u201d Armstrong said. \u201cIt\u2019s refreshing to finally have a regulatory agency that takes input from the people who produce what the world needs \u2013 and allows them to do it better than anyone else while protecting the environment. We thank Administrator Zeldin and the Trump administration for supporting common-sense regulation and unleashing U.S. energy production to hold down costs for consumers and strengthen national security.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>North Dakota is currently participating in lawsuits against both the Clean Power Plan 2.0, which would effectively shut down existing coal-fired power plants by requiring them to curb greenhouse gas emissions by 90% by 2032, and the MATS rule, arguing it exceeds EPA\u2019s statutory authority and threatens the U.S. power grid by forcing the premature closure of power plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bismarck &#8211; Gov. Kelly Armstrong issued the following statement today after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced its proposal to repeal two burdensome Biden-era power plant regulations known as \u201cClean Power Plan 2.0\u201d and Mercury and Air Toxic Standards (MATS). The announcement comes one month after Armstrong and EPA Administrator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":293370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294087,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294085\/revisions\/294087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/293370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}