EPA undoes Trump-era power plant rollback
02/17/2023
A quixotic and clamorous regulatory saga perhaps unmatched in Clean Air Act history has ended — at least for now.
In a final rule unveiled Friday, EPA restored the legal underpinnings of a 2012 set of regulations for emissions of mercury, a neurotoxin that’s particularly dangerous to babies, and a host of other dangerous pollutants from coal-fired power plants.
The rule will now be key to any effort by President Joe Biden’s administration to strengthen those regulations and clamp down on a controversial source of climate change-inducing air pollution.
