EPA offers industrial polluters way to avoid rules on mercury, arsenic, other toxic chemical

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WASHINGTON (AP) — As part of a push to roll back dozens of environmental regulations, the Trump administration is offering coal-fired power plants and other industrial polluters a chance for exemptions from requirements to reduce emissions of toxic chemicals such as mercury, arsenic and benzene.

The Environmental Protection Agency has set up an electronic mailbox to allow regulated companies to request a presidential exemption under the Clean Air Act to a host of Biden-era rules.

Companies were asked to send an email by Monday seeking permission from President Donald Trump to bypass the new restrictions.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-epa-clean-air-exemption-mercury-13f009f79fdc84443e428618d2a01bba

[candide]

Expect a strong reaction from RFK Jr.! 🤣

[Purdey]

Ignoring pollution has long term effects on people but I guess most of the people responsible whether factory owners or EPA officers will be retired or dead by then. 

In Thailand we have PM2.5 pollution but no one cares.

[Yagoda]

4 hours ago, placeholder said:

WASHINGTON (AP) — As part of a push to roll back dozens of environmental regulations, the Trump administration is offering coal-fired power plants and other industrial polluters a chance for exemptions from requirements to reduce emissions of toxic chemicals such as mercury, arsenic and benzene.

The Environmental Protection Agency has set up an electronic mailbox to allow regulated companies to request a presidential exemption under the Clean Air Act to a host of Biden-era rules.

Companies were asked to send an email by Monday seeking permission from President Donald Trump to bypass the new restrictions.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-epa-clean-air-exemption-mercury-13f009f79fdc84443e428618d2a01bba

Oh this will be fabulous!

 

OK, Are you claiming that there will be no limits on the emissions of these chemicals?

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14 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Oh this will be fabulous!

 

OK, Are you claiming that there will be no limits on the emissions of these chemicals?

Do you think that would be a bad thing?

[Yagoda]

57 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Do you think that would be a bad thing?

Are you claiming there will be no limits on the emissions of these chemicals. Thats the issue isnt it?

 

Or will there still be limits on these chemicals.

 

One or the other. 

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11 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Well you're the one making the big stink about it, tell us what the Trump Administration is going to do. Are they going to eliminate any restrictions at all on what comes out of a power plant or are they going to change certain rules imposed by the prior Administration?

 

It's amazing to me how many questions you avoid because quite frankly, your chicken little topics are generally lies and you can't answer the questions that expose them.

 

Like this one.

What questions have I avoided? I was just trying to coax you into actually understanding what was very clear prose in the article. In that attempt, I failed. Well, as the saying goes, blame the teacher not the student. Although that seems like a lefty sentiment to me.

 

'Anyway, the article clearly states that they are asking for "exemptions from requirements". Not exemptions from some requirements. 

 

And the section in question is 112 of the Clean Air Act.

 

Clean Air Act Section 112 Presidential Exemption Information
To advance President Trump’s Executive Orders and Power the Great American Comeback, EPA has set up an electronic mailbox to allow the regulated community to request a Presidential Exemption under section 112(i)(4) of the Clean Air Act. You may submit a request for a Presidential Exemption to this email address: [email protected] by March 31, 2025.

https://www.epa.gov/stationary-sources-air-pollution/clean-air-act-section-112-presidential-exemption-information

 

"Section 112 of the Clean Air Act addresses emissions of hazardous air pollutants. Prior to 1990, CAA established a risk-based program under which only a few standards were developed. The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments revised Section 112 to first require issuance of technology-based standards for major sources and certain area sources. "Major sources" are defined as a stationary source or group of stationary sources that emit or have the potential to emit 10 tons per year or more of a hazardous air pollutant or 25 tons per year or more of a combination of hazardous air pollutants. 

https://www.epa.gov/laws-regulations/summary-clean-air-act

 

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[Yagoda]

1 hour ago, placeholder said:

Anyway, the article clearly states that they are asking for "exemptions from requirements". Not exemptions from some requirements. 

Have you checked the regulations they are seeking an exemption for? Could it be they are giving out waivers from untenable rules of the Biden admin based on the Global Warming Hoax.?

 

Dont you ever double check what the Press tells you?

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2 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Have you checked the regulations they are seeking an exemption for? Could it be they are giving out waivers from untenable rules of the Biden admin based on the Global Warming Hoax.?

 

Dont you ever double check what the Press tells you?

"The agency listed nine rules currently under review subject to the exemption request including limits on toxic chemicals, such as mercury and arsenic, and ethylene oxide, a carcinogen, and provided instructions for how company’s could apply including what to put in the email’s subject line."

https://archive.ph/A3VjY#selection-1829.0-1829.291

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12 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Have you checked the regulations they are seeking an exemption for? Could it be they are giving out waivers from untenable rules of the Biden admin based on the Global Warming Hoax.?

 

Dont you ever double check what the Press tells you?

Here is the government's own website:

https://www.epa.gov/stationary-sources-air-pollution/clean-air-act-section-112-presidential-exemption-information

And this is just one of the links that is offered on that website to the coke industry and toxic substances that has been subject to strict controls.

https://www.epa.gov/stationary-sources-air-pollution/coke-ovens-pushing-quenching-and-battery-stacks-national-emission

"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized amendments to update and strengthen emission standards for hazardous air pollutants (HAP) such as benzene, mercury, lead and arsenic that are emitted by coke oven facilities."

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16 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Have you checked the regulations they are seeking an exemption for? Could it be they are giving out waivers from untenable rules of the Biden admin based on the Global Warming Hoax.?

 

Dont you ever double check what the Press tells you?

There's a branch of statistics called Bayesian. It starts with making certain assumptions and then testing how those assumptions fare when compared to the data. Those assumptions are called priors. In this case, your priors fail to note what happens when the NY Times and other mainstream media get it wrong. What happens is the conservative news media jump all over them. They love it when they get a gotcha. And that's a good thing. The media should check up on each other. So, you got any gotchas to offer in this case? Does the absence of them suggest anything to you?