July 18, 2025
Washington, D.C. - Last night, Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency exempted more big polluters from lifesaving EPA guardrails.
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April 15, 2025
Washington, D.C. - Trump’s Administration exempted 68 coal-fired power plants from lifesaving safeguards that curb emissions of mercury and air toxics and protect Americans from the deadly health effects of coal pollution. The list of plants exempted includes nine of the nation’s worst offenders for mercury emissions.
April 2, 2025
Washington, D.C. - The operators of Colstrip Power Plant have requested a presidential exemption from the Environmental Protection Agency’s updated Mercury and Air Toxics Standard after Trump's EPA openly invited the fossil fuel industry to email the agency with requests for presidential exemptions from critical safeguards in the Clean Air Act.
March 9, 2022
BRUSSELS -- Despite being banned, skin lighteners with illegal levels of mercury are still being sold by some of the world’s biggest online retailers to unsuspecting consumers, according to a new Zero Mercury Working Group (ZMWG) report released today. More than 100 products purchased from sites including eBay and Amazon tested positive for mercury levels well above the one part per million (ppm) limit mandated by the global UN Minamata Convention and US safeguards for cosmetics. Of those products, seven contained between 2.8 to 12,418 ppm of mercury and were easily purchased from the US on eBay and delivered to a US address.