Thursday, March 27, 2025

E.P.A. Offers a Way to Avoid Clean-Air Rules: Send an Email

 E.P.A. Offers a Way to Avoid Clean-Air Rules: Send an Email (Thanks to Arya for this one)

Referring to a little-known provision, it said power plants and others could write to seek exemptions to mercury and other restrictions and that “the president will make a decision.”

The Environmental Protection Agency this week said an obscure section of the Clean Air Act enables the president to temporarily exempt industrial facilities from new rules if the technology required to meet those rules isn’t available, and if it’s in the interest of national security.

A coal-burning power plant in Colorado in 2023. The Biden administration had put new rules in place on emissions from power plants. Rachel Woolf for The New York Times