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Shelley Moore Capito: “At the end of 2025, you finalized a rule that extended…”

Featuring: Shelley Moore Capito, Republican | U.S. Senate West Virginia

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Capito Participates in Interior Appropriations Subcommittee Hearing on EPA Budget

Published | Video Starts at 00:58

The Biden rule took a completely different approach by requiring plants to eliminate discharges altogether which would meet stranding those investments that were made in 2020. At the end of 2025, you finalized a rule that extended compliance periods for the 20 and 2024 ELG rules. and provided a pathway for the coal plants to come into compliance. These actions were extremely helpful in preserving baseload power, which we desperately needed this winter we saw, and also protecting ratepayers. (00:58–01:07)

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Asserts that compliance periods for the 2020 and 2024 ELG rules were extended at the end of 2025.

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