EPA is putting thousands of lives at risk with its maneuvering to unwind the legal basis for Obama-eraregulations on power plant emissions of mercury, Earthjustice charged in a report released today."The Trump administration is operating dishonestly, pretending that limiting pollution that kills people and causesgreat harm does not actually cause that harm," the environmental group said in the report."If Trump's EPA is successful, people will die to boost the profits of coal barons and our air will be less healthy."Under a proposed rule signed in December, EPA would scrap the statutorily required justification that it is"appropriate and necessary" to control releases of mercury and other hazardous pollutants from coal- and oilfiredpower plants.
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