Washington, D.C. – In response to the Environmental Protection Agency proposing updated standards for NOx pollution from gas-fired power plants, the League of Conservation Voters released the following statement from Vice President of Federal Policy and former EPA scientist, Matthew Davis:

“The Biden-Harris administration’s proposed rule is an important and long-overdue step towards limiting dangerous smog and soot-forming pollution from new methane gas power plants that will deliver hundreds of millions of dollars in health benefits. Reducing new gas plants’ health-harming air pollution will help children and their parents breathe easier and put an end to Big Polluters decades-old free ride polluting our communities–particularly communities of color and communities of low wealth that are targeted by fossil fuel utilities pushing to build new plants. But more must be done to protect our communities, we must ensure that all new gas plants are covered and limit pollution from any plants burning hydrogen, too. The health science is clear, the technology exists, the record supports it, and the law requires it.  We will continue to press the EPA to improve on these important clean air safeguards and will hold the future Trump administration accountable to the court-ordered deadline to finalize a protective rule in November 2025.”

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