2 Georgia Coal Plants Can Pump More Mercury Into The Air: Here's Why

2 Georgia Coal Plants Can Pump More Mercury Into The Air: Here's Why

ShareClean energy advocates say that a new exemption granted by the Trump administration for dozens of power plants – including two in Georgia – is the latest example of federal policy favoring the coal industry despite pollution concerns. Earlier this week, the Environmental Protection Agency approved a two-year exemption allowing Georgia Power’s Plant Bowen and Plant Scherer to bypass federal emission regulations for mercury and other air poll…

Trump administration dismantles pollution protections and deletes public data as EPA grants sweeping exemptions to industry

Environmental groups sue over deletion of climate and justice tools while polluters receive fast-tracked exemptions from EPA oversight.

Trump grants pollution exemptions to dozens of coal plants, including four in Kentucky

Cumberland Fossil Plant in Cumberland City, Tennessee, is among the 66 power plants granted exemptions from some pollution safeguards recently by the Trump administration.(Tennessee Valley Authority / Flickr) The Trump administration invited power plants to apply for permission to follow a more relaxed version of the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) put in place by former President Joe Biden, as well as other major clean-air rules. That B…

Communities urged the IFC/World Bank to stop the harms caused by coal plants

By Nuclear-Free Bataan Movement This morning, April 21, the Nuclear-Free Bataan Movement (NCFBM), joins with the Philippine Movement for Climate Justice (PMCJ) and the Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD), in staging a protest in front of the International Finance Corporation (IFC)/World Bank in BGC and at the Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) office in Makati. The protest calls for accountability from these financia…

Arizona’s Apache Generating Station one of 66 coal plants to get EPA exemption

The Apache Generating Station, one of the last remaining power plants in Arizona that use coal, is among 66 power plants nationwide granted exemptions by the Trump administration from updated standards on mercury, arsenic, lead and other toxic pollutants.