Trump’s EPA announces major rollbacks to power plant pollution limits | Trump administration
American power plants will be allowed to pollute nearby communities and the wider world with unhealthy air toxins and an unlimited amount of planet gases under the new regulatory declines suggested by Donald Trump administrationExperts warned.
the American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) revealed a plan on Wednesday that would cancel the prominent climate base aimed at the mostly elimination of greenhouse gases from power plants by the thirties of the last century, separately, weakening another list that restricts the launch of power stations for dangerous air pollutants such as mercury.
“We choose to protect the environment and develop the economy,” Lee Zilden, an Environmental Protection Agency official, said in an event to announce the plans. He said that the declines will provide families’ money while also challenging what he called “Climate Change.”
Zeldin said that the climate base “has led to” our decisive energy sector with expensive, unreasonable and exhausting regulations. “American energy has suffered and the Americans who rely on reliable energy at reasonable prices. And the good news is those days.
The proposals of the Environmental Protection Agency for public suspension will come out and may face legal challenges.
They target Al Qaeda made Last year before Biden Administration To gradually get rid of emissions from the fossil fuel stations, which are responsible for about a quarter of the American greenhouse gases, and the organization called mercury and air standards, which are Biden Strictness In 2023 to reduce the harmful pollution that societies suffered.
These declines come despite the overwhelming scientific evidence of the dire consequences of the increasing climate crisis and the damage caused by pollutants such as mercury, which can leak into water, soil and air and have been linked to nervous damage in young children, as well as the erosion of the heart and immune system in adults. Coal power plants cause nearly half of the mercury emissions in the United States, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
More than 200 health experts books As for the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, the moves warn “will increase the largest pollution in contracts, which is a stark identity for the pollutants.” Experts added that the repercussions “a direct contradiction with the mission of the Environmental Protection Agency represented in the protection of public health and the environment.”
However, Trump pledged to increase the production of fossil fuels at any cost, after he made record donations from the oil and gas industry during his campaign. At the EPA event on Wednesday, join Zeldin by eight legislators, and all Republicans – Kevin Cramer, Troy Balderson, Brett Guthrie, Carol Miller, Dan Meuser, Rob Bresnahan, Michael Rulli, and Riley Moore – who received a form Collective more than $ 3 million of superstructures for employees.
Brisbanen, Pennsylvania actor, He holds personal financial interests In more than 20 fossil fuel companies.
By justifying the deletion of the Biden climate plan, which will previously estimate the Environmental Protection Agency 370 billion dollars of net advantages, Zilden claimed that American power plants only produce a small and diminishing part of the world’s emissions. This is despite the fact that if these power plants are a state, it is in that It will be the sixth most emitted on this planet.
“The dismantling of our nation protection from pollution of the power plant is very illogical and cannot be defended. It is a purely political play that contradicts contracts from science review and policy review,” said Gina McCarthy, who was the director of the Environmental Protection Agency during the Barack Obama era.
She added: “By giving a green light for more pollution, his legacy will forever a person who provides fossil fuel -making bid at the expense of our health.” “Everyone will be affected by its actions, but the most vulnerable between us, our children and grandchildren, will suffer more than others.”
The Environmental Protection Agency has begun in a large -scale raid on environmental regulations since Trump became president, as it has been placed around removing or diluting clean air and water bases collectively, They were on the right path to memorization 200,000 American people in the coming decades.
Trump, who adopted the slogan “Drilling, Child, and Drilling”, claimed that the production of fossil fuels without obstacles would reduce energy costs, although he sought clean energy such as solar energy and wind, which is usually the cheapest sources of new electricity generation.
Continue the declines The second best May Globally, a standard heater 2024, which made the amazing unleashed number One of the disasters that the climate drives and six weeks of additional-hot days. Experts have to caution The high sea level is on the right path to cause “catastrophic migration”, including Millions of AmericansWith climate shocks Scan 50 % of global gross domestic product by the end of this century.
“It is fully advisable for Donald Trump to seek to decline in these life saving standards and greater harm to the American people and our planet only to gain some cake points with the fossil fuel industry,” said Patrick Drop, Climate Manager at Sierra Club Club.
“This administration is trading in the transparency of American life for the dollar of the campaign and supporting fossil fuel companies, and the Americans must feel disgust and anger because their government has launched an attack on our health and our future.”
