EPA is kicking off its Clean Air Act deregulatory blitz in tandem with the Trump administration’s unprecedented overhaul of the division carrying out the rollbacks.
That’s no accident, critics say.
On Friday, EPA sent proposals to the White House regulations office that would scrap both what is described as a “carbon standards pollution” rule and a separate set of regulations aimed at further cutting emissions of mercury and other toxic pollutants from coal-fired power plants, according to notices posted on a government tracking website.
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Both rules — issued during former President Joe Biden’s administration — were on a list of targets that Administrator Lee Zeldin trumpeted in March as the “biggest deregulatory action in U.S. history.”
