New Emissions Rules Could Spell the End of U.S. Coal Plants

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🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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A.M. Edition for April 25. The Biden administration issues sweeping new rules to limit power-plant pollution, targeting existing coal and newly built natural-gas plants. WSJ climate reporter Ed Ballard explains how that could affect the U.S. energy mix as power demand surges. Plus, BHP offers to buy rival Anglo-American in a mining megadeal. And 18 of Donald Trump’s allies are indicted in Arizona on charges they tried to overturn the 2020 election. Luke Vargas hosts. Listening on Google Podcasts? Here's our guide for switching to a different podcast player. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.5	slash Wall Street.
0:17.2	New EPA Emissions Rules put the squeeze on coal power plants, plus a mega deal in mining as BHP offers
0:29.3	to buy rival Anglo-American.
0:32.0	What we see through this deal is that this is very much a bet on the energy transition.
0:37.2	So it's definitely a broad-based scramble to own copper ahead of rising demand.
0:43.1	And 18 of Donald Trump's allies
0:45.5	are indicted in Arizona on charges
0:48.0	they tried to overturn the 2020 election.
0:51.1	It's Thursday, April 25th. I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal and here is
0:55.5	the AM edition of What's News? The top headlines and business stories moving your world today.
1:01.6	We begin in Arizona where a state grand jury has indicted
1:08.3	18 of former president Donald Trump's allies including his his former lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and former White House
1:15.3	Chief of Staff Mark Meadows over their alleged efforts to overturn Trump's 2020 election
1:20.9	defeat in the state.
1:22.8	Arizona Attorney General Chris Mays explained the charges in footage released by her
1:26.8	office saying the people of Arizona had elected President Biden in a free and fair vote.
1:33.0	Unwilling to accept this fact, the defendants charged by the state grand jury allegedly
1:38.6	schemed to prevent the lawful transfer of the presidency.
1:43.0	Whatever their reasoning was,
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