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EPA lifts emissions limits on coal and gas plants

Trump administration removes Obama-era climate restrictions in latest deregulation push.

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What to know

  • The EPA removed limits on carbon emissions from coal and gas plants, reversing Obama-era climate policies and continuing Trump's broad deregulation agenda.
  • Fossil fuel companies donated at least $75 million to Trump's campaign plus millions more to his inauguration fund and affiliated PACs.
  • Analysis argues the policy reflects both financial incentives and Trump's ideological embrace of fossil fuels as symbols of American masculinity, framed in contrast to green energy as feminine and cosmopolitan.
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Trump's fossil fuel support reflects both financial contributions and ideological embrace of these industries as masculine.

  • “For Trump "part of the appeal of climate-destroying, future-inhibiting, polluting energy industries is not merely that their execs are writing him checks. It's that he sees these industries & these forms of energy consumption, as more…”

    amydiehl@mstdn.social · Mastodon ↗

“the American right's energy policy posture is not explainable by recourse to strictly material measures: it requires a psychological explanation…oil, gas and the lifestyle markers and forms of consumption that they enable – think cowboy hats, broad asphalt highways, and big trucks parked before a field of swinging pumpjacks – represent an ideal of American manliness and dominance whose symbolic power has become a meaningful obstacle to a US energy transition.”

Moira Donegan, Columnist · The Guardian · Sep 16

Trump U.S. PresidentMoira Donegan Columnist and analystEPA Regulatory agency

EPA lifts emissions limits on coal and gas plants
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    DoneganTrump's fossil fuel support rooted in ideology of manliness

    Moira Donegan published analysis arguing that while fossil fuel companies donated at least $75 million to Trump's campaign plus additional sums to his inauguration fund and PACs, part of his support for these industries reflects a perception of fossil fuels and their associated lifestyles as masculine ideals rather than purely financial motivation.

    “part of Trump's love of fossil fuels – and his accompanying hostility to climate change mitigation, green initiatives, and nature conservation – might be less transactional than libidinal.”
    — Moira Donegan
    1. 3 outlets Trump’s love of fossil fuels is about more than money | Moira Donegan

      first by Guardian Business, 6d ago · also Guardian Environment, Guardian US

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    • amydiehl@mstdn.social

      For Trump "part of the appeal of climate-destroying, future-inhibiting, polluting energy industries is not merely that their execs are writing him checks. It’s that he sees these industries & these forms of energy consumption, as more manly." @ moiradonegan https://www. theguardian.com/commentisfree/ 2026/sep/17/trump-fossil-fuels-industry

      amydiehl@mstdn.socialMastodon6d ago5▲view on Mastodon ↗
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    • Bellingen@mastodon.au

      * The US decision to remove limits on coal and gas plant emissions is rooted in a perception of manliness in these industries >> https://www. theguardian.com/commentisfree/ 2026/sep/17/trump-fossil-fuels-industry * Petro-masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire "As the planet warms, new authoritarian movements in the West are embracing a…

      Bellingen@mastodon.auMastodon6d ago2▲view on Mastodon ↗
    • rmblaber1956@mastodon.social

      https://www. theguardian.com/commentisfree/ 2026/sep/17/trump-fossil-fuels-industry . "Some of the # motivations for the # Trump administration’s pro-carbon, anti-green # policy postures have to do with cold, hard # cash . # Fossilfuel # companies have given a staggering amount to Trump over the past several years... But part of the Trump’s love…

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  2. background

    EPA announces removal of coal and gas emissions limits — The EPA lifted carbon emissions limits on coal- and gas-burning power plants, reversing climate policies from the Biden and Obama administrations. This followed broader Trump administration deregulation efforts affecting vehicle and household appliance emissions.

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