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The Trump administration EPA says regulations to reduce power plant emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants are too costly and should no longer be considered legally "appropriate and necessary."
In another proposed reversal of an Obama-era standard, the Environmental Protection Agency Friday said limiting mercury and other toxic emissions from coal- and oil-fired power plants is not cost-effective and should not be considered "appropriate and necessary."
The EPA says it is keeping the 2012 restrictions in place for now, in large part because utilities have already spent billions to comply with them. But environmental groups worry the move is a step toward repealing the limits and could make it harder to impose other regulations in the future.
In a statement, the EPA said it is "providing regulatory certainty by transparently and accurately taking account of both costs and benefits."
The National Mining Association welcomed the move, calling the mercury limits "punitive" and "massively unbalanced."
(Score: 5, Insightful) by TheGratefulNet on Sunday December 30 2018, @02:41PM (7 children)
trump will die before the long-term effects of POLLUTION really take effect. so, he really does not care. same with all the Old Guys(tm) who run things. they know their bank accounts will be big, NOW. they'll be dead soon, so they just don't care.
do you guys get that? they don't care about us, the world, anything but themselves.
but yeah, keep re-electing republicans. stigginit is worth it, afterall, right?
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 30 2018, @02:48PM (2 children)
Are you saying that there is a politician out there who would care?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 30 2018, @05:09PM (1 child)
Incumbants generally don’t like their voters dying.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Sunday December 30 2018, @07:29PM
Heh, if that were true, they'd give us health care at least as good as theirs.. Incumbents don't have to worry, the new kids aren't voting out of the box any more than the old farts. The empire stands tall.
Funny, we abscess over CO2, which is mathematically fixed to the amount of carbon we release. But we virtually ignore the real poisons we spew, the ones that turn the sky brown, even up at cruising altitude, the daily oil spills (which really hardly compare to natural leakage, about 5% of the oil in the Gulf, but that is crude oil, not sulfuric acid and Mercury).
This guy is a piece of work, next he's gonna demand we put lead back into our gas and paint. Oh well, this is what you people vote for. There is no point in singling out one team in the NFL, except the one that brings in the most revenue, which used to be the Bears and the Packers for a long time. Anyone knows who it is now?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by redneckmother on Sunday December 30 2018, @05:45PM
i'm beginning to wonder if the "coal coalition" members have been standing downwind of the coal smoke, or drinking from water sources near coal sludge...
Mas cerveza por favor.
(Score: 5, Informative) by mcgrew on Sunday December 30 2018, @09:17PM (2 children)
He's old enough to remember a time before the EPA, when you had to roll your windows up when driving past Monsanto no matter how hot it was outside (no car AC back then) because the air would burn your lungs, and when rivers and streams actually caught fire. His REAL motto is "Make America FILTHY again".
I am frankly disgusted by this administration.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 30 2018, @11:32PM (1 child)
Frankly, this administration is disgusted by unemployable pink-hair transsexuals like you.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 31 2018, @01:04PM
Dude, have you never seen a picture of mcgrew? https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/3b/9a/65/3b9a65a570f3559d2538d3540b08f087.jpg [pinimg.com]