Environmental groups are suing to overturn President Donald Trump’s decision to give almost 70 coal-fired power plants a two-year exemption on compliance with strengthened EPA air toxics regulations on mercury and other pollutants.
Trump’s grounds for granting the mass exemptions via an April presidential proclamation were in effect a sham, Air Alliance Houston and 11 other advocacy organizations allege in the lawsuit filed late Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
“The Exemption Proclamation is illegal and must be invalidated,” the suit says.
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White House spokespeople did not immediately reply to an emailed request for comment Friday morning.
