RALEIGH, NC - Today, Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency dismantled a bedrock environmental and public health standard that protects Americans from mercury and dangerous toxic air pollutants, such as arsenic, lead, and chromium. Rolling back the new and more protective Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) will allow coal- and oil-fired power plants to emit more damaging pollution that puts the public at greater risk of heart and lung disease, developmental delays and learning disabilities, cancer, and even premature death.
ATLANTA - Today, Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency dismantled a bedrock environmental and public health standard that protects Americans from mercury and other dangerous toxic air pollutants, such as arsenic, lead, and chromium. Rolling back the new and more protective Mercury and Air Toxics Standards will allow coal- and oil-fired power plants to emit more damaging pollution that puts the public at greater risk of heart and lung disease, cancer, and even premature death, as well as causing severe neurological damage to fetuses and children.
JEFFERSON CITY, MO - Today, Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency dismantled a bedrock environmental and public health standard that protects Americans from mercury and dangerous toxic air pollutants, such as arsenic, lead, and chromium.
Washington, D.C. - Today, Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency dismantled a bedrock environmental and public health standard that protects Americans from mercury and other dangerous toxic air pollutants, such as arsenic, lead, and chromium.
ATLANTA - Despite clear opposition from Georgians, the Georgia Public Service Commission has refused to reconsider Georgia Power’s plan to build the most expensive gas plants in the nation to serve data centers.
Salt Lake City – Today, in a brazen assault on the health and welfare of the American public, the Trump administration finalized decisions that severely slash decades of environmental progress. Dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency’s mission to protect human health and the environment, Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin have eliminated the EPA’s greenhouse gas endangerment finding, limiting the agency’s authority to curb deadly greenhouse gas emissions.
Phoenix, AZ – Today, in a brazen assault on the health and welfare of people throughout the country, the Trump administration finalized decisions that severely gut decades of environmental progress.
NASHVILLE – In a brazen assault on the health and welfare of the American public, the Trump administration finalized its rule revoking the Environmental Protection Agency’s longstanding greenhouse gas endangerment finding under the federal Clean Air Act. With the stroke of a pen, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has now formalized climate denialism as official government policy and moved to eliminate EPA’s ability to directly fight the climate crisis.
RALEIGH, N.C. – Trump announced the Department of Energy will throw a $175 million taxpayer-funded lifeline to six coal plants throughout the country, including Duke Energy’s Belews Creek in North Carolina. The DOE notes additional taxpayer money will be doled out to support coal plants in the future.
ATLANTA – In a brazen assault on the health and welfare of the American public, the Trump administration finalized its rule revoking the Environmental Protection Agency’s longstanding greenhouse gas endangerment finding under the federal Clean Air Act. With the stroke of a pen, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has now formalized climate denialism as official government policy and moved to eliminate EPA’s ability to directly fight the climate crisis.
Washington, D.C. - Based on reporting, today Donald Trump will give away hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars to coal plants and mandate that the Department of Defense must enter contracts to buy electricity from coal-fired power plants.
JEFFERSON CITY, MO – Today, in a brazen assault on the health and welfare of the American public, the Trump administration announced that it will finalize its rule revoking the Environmental Protection Agency’s longstanding greenhouse gas endangerment finding under the federal Clean Air Act. With the stroke of a pen at a White House event this Thursday, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin will formalize climate denialism as official government policy and move to eliminate EPA’s ability to directly fight the climate crisis.