CPR Scholars and Staff Call on EPA to Abandon Proposed Attack on Mercury Rule

Center for Progressive Reform 2019-05-22

Summary:

One of the most successful environmental regulations in U.S. history is under attack from the Trump EPA -- and its demise might be accomplished by shady bookkeeping. That is the conclusion of comments filed by Center for Progressive Reform Member Scholars and staff on April 17. Since it was issued in 2011, the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard (MATS), which establishes rigorous technology-based standards to limit hazardous air pollution from fossil-fueled power plants -- has reduced electric utilities' emissions of neurotoxic mercury by 81 percent. Significantly, the rule has achieved these reductions at less than a third of its projected costs while delivering public health savings estimated at billions of dollars each year.

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http://www.progressivereform.org/CPRBlog.cfm?idBlog=E8C7AFDA-D4B0-6BA1-DB26F0A46F1B3EC3

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Authors:

James Goodwin

Date tagged:

05/22/2019, 17:50

Date published:

04/18/2019, 11:30