Biden’s Latest Power Plant Power Grab

Biden’s Latest Power Plant Power Grab
President Joe Biden announces plans to curb planet-warming emissions from the nation's power stations, as part of the efforts to combat climate change, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on May 11, 2023. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
Diana Furchtgott-Roth
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Almost two years after a similar rule was rejected by the Supreme Court, the Biden administration on April 25 released another final rule for regulating U.S. power plants.
Diana Furchtgott-Roth
Diana Furchtgott-Roth
Author
Diana Furchtgott-Roth is an economist who is adjunct professor of economics at George Washington University, where she teaches Transportation Economics. From 2019 to 2021, she was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology at the U.S. Department of Transportation. Prior to joining USDOT, Furchtgott was Acting Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the U.S. Department of Treasury. She has been a senior fellow and director of Economics21 at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. She previously served as chief economist of the U.S. Department of Labor; chief of staff of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers; and deputy executive director of the Domestic Policy Council. She is the director of the Center for Energy, Climate and Environment and the Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. Furchtgott is also president of Furchtgott International and the author or coauthor of six books and hundreds of articles on economic policy, most recently “United States Income, Consumption, Wealth, and Inequality” (2020). She received her BA in economics from Swarthmore College and her M.Phil. in economics from Oxford University.