EPA rule undermining Obama-era mercury limits nears completion

摘要

The Environmental Protection Agency has advanced a rule revokingthe legal basis for Obama-era mercury controls on coal- and oilfiredpower plants in one of the last steps before a final regulationis issued.The rule, which would rescind EPA’s “appropriate and necessary”finding that underpins the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS)rule, landed at the White House Office of Information and RegulatoryAffairs on October 4.