RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread
May 27, 2019 at 1:04 am
(This post was last modified: May 27, 2019 at 1:05 am by Fake Messiah.)
Quote:Trump's EPA wants to gut the Mercury and Air Toxic Standards (MATS), which protects children from toxic air pollutants like mercury and arsenic from power plants
WHEN COAL IS BURNED IN THE U.S., most of the mercury in the coal no longer spews into our air. This improvement is due to a 2011 federal rule that is now under attack by the Trump administration.
The Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule, or “MATS” for short, was widely adopted by industry and has proven enormously successful at limiting dangerous air pollution. Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency, however, is determined to defy the old adage: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
The EPA’s acting administrator, Andrew Wheeler, is trying to undermine MATS and facilitate a lawsuit to eliminate it by his former industry clients.
https://earthjustice.org/features/what-y...-standards
Hey, what are the lives of children compared to the few coal companies CEOs putting few more dollars into their pockets. It's probably the trans kids who are going to die anyway and we all know they are the cause of downfall of the US just like they were the cause of downfall of ancient Rome, so it's win win situation.