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3 days ago
- Business
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EPA to hold hearings on contested air rules
EPA has agreed to hold public hearings on three contested Clean Air Act rollbacks imposed in July without advance notice. Yielding slightly to sometimes angry feedback, the agency will also allow more time for written comments on the interim final rules, which pushed back compliance deadlines for updated air toxics regulations for leading steel and coke manufacturers and delayed stricter limits on methane emissions by the oil and gas industry. Under President Donald Trump, the delays are expected to be a prelude to outright repeal of the three rules, all of which were issued last year during the Biden administration. Advertisement A senior staffer at one of the groups that sought the hearings called it important for regulators to hear directly meanwhile from people who live near polluting plants.
E&E News
21-06-2025
- Health
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Power plant rollback could compel clampdown on other polluters
EPA's newly proposed rollback of stricter power industry air toxics regulations could carry a ricochet effect: states having to toughen controls on other pollution sources to meet required air quality goals, according to an in-house analysis released this week. Under the draft rule published Tuesday, the agency would scrap regulations updated last year primarily to tighten emission limits on mercury, arsenic and other hazardous metals from coal-fired power plants. But as a side benefit, those regulations were also expected to cut concentrations of smog and soot in parts of the United States, possibly including some that were flunking ambient air quality standards for one or both of those pollutants, the regulatory impact analysis says. Advertisement 'As these emissions reductions will not occur under this proposed repeal action, states may need to pursue emissions reductions from other sources to reach the standards, incurring costs for those sources,' the analysis says.
E&E News
13-06-2025
- Politics
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‘Presidential exemption' for coal-fired plants faces lawsuit
Environmental groups are suing to overturn President Donald Trump's decision to give almost 70 coal-fired power plants a two-year exemption on compliance with strengthened EPA air toxics regulations on mercury and other pollutants. Trump's grounds for granting the mass exemptions via an April presidential proclamation were in effect a sham, Air Alliance Houston and 11 other advocacy organizations allege in the lawsuit filed late Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. 'The Exemption Proclamation is illegal and must be invalidated,' the suit says. Advertisement White House spokespeople did not immediately reply to an emailed request for comment Friday morning.
