{"id":25403,"date":"2025-04-05T17:18:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T17:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25403"},"modified":"2025-04-05T17:24:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T17:24:39","slug":"chemical-industry-asks-trump-for-exemption-from-pollution-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25403","title":{"rendered":"Chemical Industry Asks Trump for Exemption From Pollution Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Biden-era limits were designed to reduce emissions of toxic pollutants, including a cancer-causing ingredient used in antifreeze and plastics.<\/p>\n

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Two chemical industry groups are asking President Trump for a complete exemption to free their factories from new limits on hazardous air pollution.<\/p>\n

Under a new rule finalized by the Biden administration last year, chemical plants would soon be required to monitor and reduce emissions of toxic pollutants, like ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing ingredient used in antifreeze and plastics.<\/p>\n

Now the two groups, the American Chemistry Council and the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, which represent the nation\u2019s major chemical companies, are seeking a temporary presidential waiver for all polluters to the rule.<\/p>\n

The new requirements burden their member corporations with \u201csignificantly costly requirements on an unworkable timeline,\u201d the groups wrote in a letter dated March 31 that was obtained by the Environmental Defense Fund, an environmental advocacy group.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In the letter addressed to Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the groups said that the cost to companies of meeting even parts of the new rule would exceed $50 billion, significantly more than the agency\u2019s estimate of $1.8 billion.<\/p>\n

The request came after the E.P.A. told companies last month<\/a> that they could apply for waivers to major clean-air rules by emailing the agency. The E.P.A. pointed to a 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, and if it\u2019s in the interest of national security.<\/p>\n

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The Biden-era limits were designed to reduce emissions of toxic pollutants, including a cancer-causing ingredient used in antifreeze and plastics.Two chemical industry groups are asking President Trump for a complete exemption to free their factories from new limits on hazardous air pollution.Under a new rule finalized by the Biden administration last year, chemical plants would soon be required to monitor and reduce emissions of toxic pollutants, like ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing ingredient used in antifreeze and plastics.Now the two groups, the American Chemistry Council and the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, which represent the nation\u2019s major chemical companies, are seeking a temporary presidential waiver for all polluters to the rule.The new requirements burden their member corporations with \u201csignificantly costly requirements on an unworkable timeline,\u201d the groups wrote in a letter dated March 31 that was obtained by the Environmental Defense Fund, an environmental advocacy group.In the letter addressed to Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the groups said that the cost to companies of meeting even parts of the new rule would exceed $50 billion, significantly more than the agency\u2019s estimate of $1.8 billion.The request came after the E.P.A. told companies last month that they could apply for waivers to major clean-air rules by emailing the agency. The E.P.A. pointed to a 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, and if it\u2019s in the interest of national security.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":25405,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25403","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\/25403","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=25403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25406,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25403\/revisions\/25406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}