EPA’s MATS Plan Builds On Obama-era Concepts To Justify Regulation

EPA’s plan to revive the legal underpinning of its mercury and air toxics standards (MATS) rule limiting power plant air toxics relies in large part on Obama-era concepts to justify the rule’s costs, although with a lower estimate of implementation costs and additional quantification of some benefits though EPA again declines to quantify many of the direct benefits of regulating hazardous air pollutants (HAPs). The proposed rule , signed by Administrator Michael Regan Jan. 31, restores the threshold finding that...