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EPA drops remaining power-plant greenhouse limits under Trump

Sep 14, 2026SOURCE: theverge.com
SO WHAT

In the thousand-day window, this accelerates carbon-lock and makes clean-grid capacity a harder, costlier constraint—while intelligence and demand surge.

The EPA plans to eliminate remaining standards on power-plant greenhouse emissions. The wire sees a signal: as AI demand rises, “dirtier electricity” is processed as policy victory, not transition management.

This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.