Coal emission standards
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| On August 21, 2018, the Trump administration announced plans to cut back Obama's coal emissions standards for coal-fired power plants, calling them "overly prescriptive and burdensome." The Trump plan increases the leeway given states to make their own decisions on coal emission standards, saying it "empowers states, promotes energy independence, and facilitates economic growth and job creation." Critics say the proposal would allow states to run and extend the life of older less efficient power plants and use less stringent emission guidelines for establishing new plants.<ref>{{cite web |title=Trump plan scales back Obama's coal emissions standards |url=https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-plan-rolls-back-obama-124657224.html |agency=The Canadian Press |publisher=YAHOO News |access-date=August 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2018082...om/trump-plan-rolls-back-obama-124657224.html |archive-date=August 21, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> | On August 21, 2018, the Trump administration announced plans to cut back Obama's coal emissions standards for coal-fired power plants, calling them "overly prescriptive and burdensome." The Trump plan increases the leeway given states to make their own decisions on coal emission standards, saying it "empowers states, promotes energy independence, and facilitates economic growth and job creation." Critics say the proposal would allow states to run and extend the life of older less efficient power plants and use less stringent emission guidelines for establishing new plants.<ref>{{cite web |title=Trump plan scales back Obama's coal emissions standards |url=https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-plan-rolls-back-obama-124657224.html |agency=The Canadian Press |publisher=YAHOO News |access-date=August 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2018082...om/trump-plan-rolls-back-obama-124657224.html |archive-date=August 21, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> |
| ''The New York Times'' reported in October 2019 that the Trump EPA planned to roll back or eliminate a 2015 limitation on coal-fired power plants releasing heavy metals like arsenic, lead and mercury into water supplies.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/climate/epa-coal-ash.html|title=E.P.A. to Roll Back Rules to Control Toxic Ash from Coal Plants|first=Lisa|last=Friedman|date=October 31, 2019|work=The New York Times|access-date=November 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2019110...imate/epa-coal-ash.html|archive-date=November 2, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> In April 2020, the administration announced that the EPA had changed the way that they calculate the benefits of mercury controls. The changes will reduce the positive health effects of regulations on paper and raise their economic costs so as to loosen restrictions on any pollutant that the fossil fuel industry has deemed too costly to control. Environmental lawyers say that the new method will undermine the legal underpinnings of controls on mercury and many other pollutants. David Konisky, a professor of public and environmental affairs, said, "That is the big unstated goal. This is less about mercury than about potentially constraining or handcuffing future efforts by the E.P.A. to regulate air pollution."<ref>{{cite news |title=E.P.A. Weakens Controls on Mercury |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/...5318&user_id=b60d888c97d17b36624ce6274b5d097a |website=The New York Times | date=April 16, 2020 |access-date=April 18, 2020 |archive-date=April 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2020041...5318&user_id=b60d888c97d17b36624ce6274b5d097a |url-status=live | last1=Friedman | first1=Lisa | last2=Davenport | first2=Coral }}</ref> | ''The New York Times'' reported in October 2019 that the Trump EPA planned to roll back or eliminate a 2015 limitation on coal-fired power plants releasing heavy metals like arsenic, lead and mercury into water supplies.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/climate/epa-coal-ash.html|title=E.P.A. to Roll Back Rules to Control Toxic Ash from Coal Plants|first=Lisa|last=Friedman|date=October 31, 2019|work=The New York Times|access-date=November 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2019110...imate/epa-coal-ash.html|archive-date=November 2, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> In April 2020, the administration announced that the EPA had changed the way that they calculate the benefits of mercury controls. The changes will reduce the positive health effects of regulations on paper and raise their economic costs so as to loosen restrictions on any pollutant that the fossil fuel industry has deemed too costly to control. Environmental lawyers say that the new method will undermine the legal underpinnings of controls on mercury and many other pollutants. David Konisky, a professor of public and environmental affairs, said, "That is the big unstated goal. This is less about mercury than about potentially constraining or handcuffing future efforts by the E.P.A. to regulate air pollution."<ref>{{cite news |title=E.P.A. Weakens Controls on Mercury |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/...5318&user_id=b60d888c97d17b36624ce6274b5d097a |website=The New York Times | date=April 16, 2020 |access-date=April 18, 2020 |archive-date=April 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2020041...5318&user_id=b60d888c97d17b36624ce6274b5d097a |url-status=live | last1=Friedman | first1=Lisa | last2=Davenport | first2=Coral }}</ref> |
| On August 31, 2020, it was reported that the EPA finalized the reversal of regulations to prevent toxic waste from coal plants entering the water supply.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/climate/trump-coal-plants.html|title=E.P.A. Relaxes Rules Limiting Toxic Waste From Coal Plants}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/08/31/coal-ash-epa-trump/|title=Trump administration rolls back Obama-era rule aimed at limiting toxic wastewater from coal plants}}</ref> | |
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