{"id":25226,"date":"2025-04-02T22:32:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T22:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25226"},"modified":"2025-04-02T23:23:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T23:23:39","slug":"coal-plant-ranked-as-nations-dirtiest-asks-for-pollution-exemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25226","title":{"rendered":"Coal Plant Ranked as Nation\u2019s Dirtiest Asks for Pollution Exemption"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The facility, in Colstrip, Mont., used a new E.P.A. system for requesting special waivers from President Trump.<\/p>\n

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The nation\u2019s most polluting coal-burning power plant has asked President Trump to exempt it from stricter limits on hazardous air pollution after the administration recently invited companies to apply for presidential pollution waivers by email<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The aging Colstrip power plant in Colstrip, Mont., emits more harmful fine particulate matter pollution, or soot, than any other power plant in the nation, Environmental Protection Agency figures show<\/a>. A new rule adopted by the Biden administration<\/a> in 2023 would have compelled the facility \u2014 the only coal plant in the country to lack modern pollution controls \u2014 to install new equipment.<\/p>\n

Now, the Colstrip plant has applied for a two-year exemption to those rules, according to Montana\u2019s congressional delegation, which backed the request.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The new pollution standard \u201cendangers the economic viability of the plant, which if closed, would undermine the region\u2019s electric grid,\u201d Senator Steve Daines and other members of the delegation wrote in a letter sent on Monday to the E.P.A. administrator, Lee Zeldin. \u201cWithout Colstrip, consumers would bear the burden of higher energy costs and grid unreliability, and its closure would stymie economic development in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Health experts noted that the letter didn\u2019t address the health effects of the fine pollution particles. Numerous studies have shown the particles are small enough to penetrate deep into the lungs and enter the bloodstream, where they can travel to the heart and other organs, increasing mortality from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases.<\/p>\n

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The facility, in Colstrip, Mont., used a new E.P.A. system for requesting special waivers from President Trump.The nation\u2019s most polluting coal-burning power plant has asked President Trump to exempt it from stricter limits on hazardous air pollution after the administration recently invited companies to apply for presidential pollution waivers by email.The aging Colstrip power plant in Colstrip, Mont., emits more harmful fine particulate matter pollution, or soot, than any other power plant in the nation, Environmental Protection Agency figures show. A new rule adopted by the Biden administration in 2023 would have compelled the facility \u2014 the only coal plant in the country to lack modern pollution controls \u2014 to install new equipment.Now, the Colstrip plant has applied for a two-year exemption to those rules, according to Montana\u2019s congressional delegation, which backed the request.The new pollution standard \u201cendangers the economic viability of the plant, which if closed, would undermine the region\u2019s electric grid,\u201d Senator Steve Daines and other members of the delegation wrote in a letter sent on Monday to the E.P.A. administrator, Lee Zeldin. \u201cWithout Colstrip, consumers would bear the burden of higher energy costs and grid unreliability, and its closure would stymie economic development in the region.\u201dHealth experts noted that the letter didn\u2019t address the health effects of the fine pollution particles. Numerous studies have shown the particles are small enough to penetrate deep into the lungs and enter the bloodstream, where they can travel to the heart and other organs, increasing mortality from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases.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":25228,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25226","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\/25226","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=25226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25229,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25226\/revisions\/25229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}