The Environmental Protection Agency proposed a rule to change the way the government calculates benefits of restricting mercury emissions from coal plants.
Dec. 29 (UPI) — The Environmental Protection Agency proposed a rule to change the way the government calculates benefits of restricting mercury emissions from coal plants.
The EPA proposal would change the calculation the federal government uses in its cost-benefit analysis of the Obama-era regulation on mercury emissions from coal plants to dollars while ignoring or minimizing health benefits.
Mercury is a neurotoxin that can damage children’s brains and impair intellectual and motor skills.
The agency proposed “to determine that it is not ‘appropriate and necessary’ to regulate HAP (hazardous air pollutant) emissions from power plants under Section 112 of the Clean Air Act.
