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.
