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The Trump administration will give utilities around the country an additional year to come up with a plan to clean up contaminated waterways.<\/p>\n

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The Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday that it would give utility companies an additional year to begin cleaning up contamination from toxic coal ash landfills across the country.<\/p>\n

Coal ash, a byproduct of burning coal in power plants, can contain lead, lithium and mercury. Those toxic metals can pollute waterways and drinking water supplies and have been linked to health effects<\/a> including cancer, birth defects and developmental delays in children.<\/p>\n

The E.P.A.\u2019s move was a victory for utilities that had lobbied the Trump administration to delay the cleanup requirements. But environmentalists warned that it threatened the health of the predominantly poor communities near coal plants nationwide.<\/p>\n

Under a rule finalized by the Biden administration<\/a> last year, utilities had until February 2026 to report to the E.P.A. any contamination from their coal ash landfills. The utilities had until May 2028 to install groundwater monitoring systems and to start drafting plans for cleaning up the contamination.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The E.P.A. said on Thursday that it would extend these deadlines by at least a year, until February 2027 and August 2029, respectively.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump recognizes that affordable and reliable energy are key to the strength of our nation and to our nation\u2019s energy dominance,\u201d Lee Zeldin<\/a>, the E.P.A. administrator,<\/a> said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cToday\u2019s actions provide much needed regulatory relief for the power sector.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Trump administration will give utilities around the country an additional year to come up with a plan to clean up contaminated waterways.The Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday that it would give utility companies an additional year to begin cleaning up contamination from toxic coal ash landfills across the country.Coal ash, a byproduct of burning coal in power plants, can contain lead, lithium and mercury. Those toxic metals can pollute waterways and drinking water supplies and have been linked to health effects including cancer, birth defects and developmental delays in children.The E.P.A.\u2019s move was a victory for utilities that had lobbied the Trump administration to delay the cleanup requirements. But environmentalists warned that it threatened the health of the predominantly poor communities near coal plants nationwide.Under a rule finalized by the Biden administration last year, utilities had until February 2026 to report to the E.P.A. any contamination from their coal ash landfills. The utilities had until May 2028 to install groundwater monitoring systems and to start drafting plans for cleaning up the contamination.The E.P.A. said on Thursday that it would extend these deadlines by at least a year, until February 2027 and August 2029, respectively.\u201cPresident Trump recognizes that affordable and reliable energy are key to the strength of our nation and to our nation\u2019s energy dominance,\u201d Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, said in a statement. \u201cToday\u2019s actions provide much needed regulatory relief for the power sector.\u201dWe 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":32050,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32048","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\/32048","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=32048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32051,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32048\/revisions\/32051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}