The Biden administration on Monday unveiled plans to restore key language that justifies mercury and air toxics rules, establishing that emission limits for coal-fired plants are “appropriate and necessary.”
That legal finding was tossed under the Trump administration in 2020, a hotly contested move that many argued weakened some of the most powerful clean air and water standards EPA has in its arsenal.
“The previous administration’s attempt to undermine them was unconscionable and unlawful, and we thank EPA for today’s proposal to correct it,” the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Lung Association, and other health groups said in a ...
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