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EPA Gutting Rule Credited With Coal-Plant Toxic Air Cleanup

Associated Press

   The Trump administration is gutting an Obama-era rule that compelled
   coal plants to cut back emissions of mercury and other human health
   hazards, limiting future regulation of air pollutants by petroleum and
   coal plants.

   Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler, a former coal
   lobbyist whose clients have gotten many of the regulatory rollbacks
   they asked for from the Trump administration, was set to announce the
   final version of the weakened rule later Thursday.

   Environmental and public health groups and Democratic lawmakers faulted
   the administration for pressing forward with rollbacks -- in the final
   six months of President Donald Trump's current term -- while the
   coronavirus pandemic rivets the world's attention.

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