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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: 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..