EPA narrowing climate rule for power plants, saying it will take on more robust action later [Video]

The Biden administration is narrowing its highly anticipated climate rule for power plants — dropping a proposed mandate for some existing gas plants to cut their emissions and instead saying it will tackle existing plants at a later date.

As part of its delay for existing gas plant rules, the agency said it will eventually propose a rule that covers the entire fleet — as opposed to just a fraction that would have been covered under its initial proposal.

But, in the meantime, it will only finalize climate pollution limits for existing coal plants and new gas plants, it announced Thursday. It is expected to finish the climate rule for new gas and existing coal power soon.

“This stronger, more durable approach will achieve greater emissions reductions than the current proposal,” Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan said in a written statement. 

While regulating the entire fleet of existing gas-fired power plants, instead of just some of them, would likely …