EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler to make "major policy announcement"

[DonViejo]

JUNE 19, 2019 / 7:20 AM / CBS/AP

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler is making a "major policy announcement" Wednesday morning. Although the EPA has not disclosed the topic of the announcement, Democrats, environmentalists, industry representatives and others expect it will be on rolling back regulations on on coal plants.

The Trump administration is close to completing one of its biggest rollbacks of environmental rules, replacing a landmark Obama-era effort that sought to wean the nation's electrical grid off coal-fired power plants and their climate-damaging pollution.

The final Trump administration replacement rule, expected as soon as this week, instead would give individual states wide discretion to decide whether to require limited efficiency upgrades at individual coal-fired power plants.

Joseph Goffman, an EPA official under President Barack Obama, said he feared that the Trump administration was trying to set a legal precedent that the Clean Air Act gives the federal government "next to no authority to do anything" about climate-changing emissions from the country's power grid. The Obama rule, adopted in 2015, sought to reshape the country's power system by encouraging utilities to rely less on dirtier-burning coal-fired power plants and more on electricity from natural gas, solar, wind and other lower or no-carbon sources.

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[dewsgirl]

1. He is going to release a statement of no more regulations

Period. Lead in the water, it's good for you. Air quality it's the best in the world. Uranium/plutonium is also good for you.