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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, 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]