Summary
The Trump administration has granted nearly 70 coal-fired power plants a 2-year exemption from federal requirements to reduce emissions of toxic chemicals such as mercury, arsenic, and benzene.
Among plants receiving exemptions is the Colstrip Generating Station, a massive power plant in Colstrip, Montana, that emits more toxic air pollutants such as lead and arsenic than any other U.S. facility of its kind, according to the EPA.
Environmentalists called the exemptions “a dereliction of duty by Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin.” Critics say the plan “carve[s] a ragged hole through the heart of federal protections for the air we breathe.”
Environmental groups and public health advocates have denounced the administration’s plan to grant exemptions, which they say could allow hundreds of companies to evade laws meant to protect the environment and public health.
There’s your freedom, MAGAts. Lick it up!
Getting lung cancer and brain damage to own the libs.
As a province that uses 98% renewable sources for power. How the fuck is anyone using coal still? Do they drive it there in horse drawn buggies and steam engines?
Fuck anyone that makes coal power.
Floride in water is a no no, but mercury is a-OK
These must be the autism-causing environmental toxins RFK is talking about, yes?
Fuck these morons.
Goddamn. I still remember when I broke a mercury thermometer and my parents freaked out and cleaned harder than I’ve ever seen them clean. Now this metal is being freely released into the atmosphere in 70 locations? So what, a few select businessmen can get a few more Ferraris?
