US EditionTrump administration sets up portal for polluters to request exemptions to clean air rules
- The Trump administration has created a portal for coal-fired power plants and industrial polluters to request exemptions from reducing toxic emissions under the Clean Air Act.
- Environmental groups condemned the portal, labeling it a "polluters' portal" that allows companies to evade environmental laws.
- Margie Alt, Campaign Director of the Climate Action Campaign, stated that the exemptions are a "gift to the fossil fuel industry" and indicate a "polluters-first agenda."
- Jason Rylander from the Center for Biological Diversity criticized the EPA's actions as a demonstration of the administration's preference for polluters over environmental protection.
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Reader's View: No copper-nickel mining without a strong EPA
Copper-nickel mining with a weakened U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should be unthinkable. President Donald Trump and Minnesota’s 8th Congressional District Rep. Pete Stauber have been pushing to allow new copper-nickel mines within the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Lake Superior watersheds. Now they are pushing to weaken or eliminate the EPA. This is a horrifying combination. This type of mining is questionable in these locati…
‘Defrauding’ the United States - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
An interesting story broke the other day about Hino Motors — a subsidiary of Toyota that makes commercial vehicles such as heavy trucks and diesel engines — “defrauding” the United States because its diesel engines “emitted” more than the regulatory apparat of the United States (EPA) says are allowed.
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