{"id":24818,"date":"2025-03-27T12:57:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T13:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24818"},"modified":"2025-03-27T14:28:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T14:28:56","slug":"e-p-a-offers-a-way-to-avoid-clean-air-rules-send-an-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24818","title":{"rendered":"E.P.A. Offers a Way to Avoid Clean-Air Rules: Send an Email"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Invoking an obscure provision, it said power plants and others could write to ask for exemptions to mercury, arsenic and other restrictions and that \u201cthe president will make a decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Last year, the Biden administration required coal- and oil-burning power plants to greatly reduce emissions<\/a> of toxic chemicals including mercury, which can harm babies\u2019 brains and cause heart disease in adults.<\/p>\n

Now, the Trump administration is offering companies an extraordinary out: Send an email, and they might be given permission by President Trump to bypass the new restrictions, as well as other major clean-air rules.<\/p>\n

The Environmental Protection Agency this week said it was invoking an obscure section of the Clean Air Act<\/a> that enables the president to temporarily exempt industrial facilities from new rules if the technology required to meet those rules isn\u2019t available, or if it\u2019s in the interest of national security.<\/p>\n

In its notice to companies, the agency provided a template for companies to use to get approvals, including what to write in the email\u2019s subject line. Then \u201cthe president will make a decision on the merits,\u201d said the notice, issued by the E.P.A. on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Joseph Goffman, former executive director of Harvard Law School\u2019s Environmental and Energy Law Program who served as E.P.A. assistant administrator for air pollution under President Joseph R. Biden Jr., said he feared the President Trump was \u201csetting up a rubber stamp process\u201d that would allow companies to avoid a long list of rules on air pollution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Invoking an obscure provision, it said power plants and others could write to ask for exemptions to mercury, arsenic and other restrictions and that \u201cthe president will make a decision.\u201dLast year, the Biden administration required coal- and oil-burning power plants to greatly reduce emissions of toxic chemicals including mercury, which can harm babies\u2019 brains and cause heart disease in adults.Now, the Trump administration is offering companies an extraordinary out: Send an email, and they might be given permission by President Trump to bypass the new restrictions, as well as other major clean-air rules.The Environmental Protection Agency this week said it was invoking an obscure section of the Clean Air Act that enables the president to temporarily exempt industrial facilities from new rules if the technology required to meet those rules isn\u2019t available, or if it\u2019s in the interest of national security.In its notice to companies, the agency provided a template for companies to use to get approvals, including what to write in the email\u2019s subject line. Then \u201cthe president will make a decision on the merits,\u201d said the notice, issued by the E.P.A. on Monday.Joseph Goffman, former executive director of Harvard Law School\u2019s Environmental and Energy Law Program who served as E.P.A. assistant administrator for air pollution under President Joseph R. Biden Jr., said he feared the President Trump was \u201csetting up a rubber stamp process\u201d that would allow companies to avoid a long list of rules on air pollution.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24820,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24821,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24818\/revisions\/24821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}