The Environmental Protection Agency has repealed carbon emissions standards for power plants, eliminating requirements that certain facilities deploy carbon capture and sequestration technology. The move represents one of the most significant climate-related regulatory reversals of the Trump administration and is expected to reshape long-term compliance and investment decisions across the power sector.
Bracewell’s Scott Segal told Bloomberg the repeal removes a major regulatory obligation that utilities had been facing under the prior rule.
“Rescinding carbon capture and sequestration mandates removes a very expensive, technically uncertain obligation,” Segal said.