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Biden EPA refused to grant Texas waiver leading to - grid shutdown. Once it was clear

Posted: Feb 21st, 2021 - 12:23 pm In Reply to: Cruz didn’t violate a lockdown or stay at home order - like Newsom, Widmer, Pelosi

that the polar vortex would engulf the entire state of Texas GovAbbott declared an emergency and asked President Biden for an EPA waiver to allow power generation facilities to operate at full capacity until the emergency passed.

Biden's EPA refused Gov Abbott's request and instead offered to allow certain power generation facilities a waiver if they raised the prices they charged to Texans to more than $1,500/MWh resulting in massive statewide power outages and a failure of the grid.

The truth is that the federal government controls how Texas generates electricity - the mix of sources and the capacity of each. The EPA requires that Texas' fossil fuel power generators operate far below their maximum output.

Gov. Abbott knew that if the EPA would allow our natural gas and coal power plants to operate at peak efficiency they could meet 110% of the demand the state faced last week. The EPA refused.

Sadly, Biden's acting EPA chief, David Huizenga, is not an expert at power generation but instead an expert with nuclear waste management. When Gov. Abbott received the EPA's refusal he knew Texas was in trouble and there was nothing he could do about it.

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