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…
EPA Created Email So Polluters Can More Easily Obtain Exemptions from Environmental Rules
The Environmental Protection Agency has created a direct email address for industrial polluters like coal-fired power plants to easily request exemptions from the federal government to Clean Air Act rules. The rules include limits on mercury production and other pollutants known to damage human health and the environment. Climate Action Campaign likened the process to a “gold-plated, 'get-out-of-permitting free' card.”
‘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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