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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump administration rolls back Obama-era rule aimed at limiting toxic wastewater from coal plants
Power plant discharge ranks as the largest source of toxic water pollution in the United StatesThe Trump administration on Monday weakened a 2015 regulation that would have forced coal plants to treat wastewater with more modern, effective methods in order to curb toxic metals such as arsenic and mercury from contaminating lakes, rivers and streams near their facilities.
In a statement, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler said that the final rules flexible, phased-in approach would make it easier for the coal industry to comply while also protecting the environment. Three years ago the Trump administration delayed the Obama-era rule which the EPA had estimated would keep 1.4 billion pounds of pollutants out of U.S. waterways each year before replacing it with a scaled-back version.
Newer, more affordable pollution control technologies and flexibility on the regulations phase-in will reduce pollution and save jobs at the same time, Wheeler said.
Power plants represent the largest industrial source of toxic wastewater pollution around the country.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/08/31/coal-ash-epa-trump/
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Trump administration rolls back Obama-era rule aimed at limiting toxic wastewater from coal plants (Original Post)
Zorro
Sep 2020
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secondwind
(16,903 posts)2. Vengeful, evil man.
Bayard
(22,061 posts)3. "Flexibility"
Translation: We don't give a shit.