Environmentalists Suggest Methods To Tighten MATS Emissions Limits

Environmentalists are suggesting ways that EPA can justify tightening limits on mercury and other dangerous pollutants under its forthcoming reconsideration of the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) for power plants, going beyond the reinstatement of a vital prerequisite legal finding scrapped by the Trump administration. In its proposed rule now under review by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), EPA is expected to rescind the Trump EPA’s determination that found regulation of power plant air toxics...