In a significant reversal of federal climate policy, the Trump administration's EPA has eliminated greenhouse gas emission limits on coal and natural gas power plants — facilities that collectively represent a major share of the nation's climate pollution. The decision unwinds years of regulatory effort to treat atmospheric emissions as a matter of public health, and environmental advocates warn it will accelerate both climate change and the deterioration of air quality in communities already bearing the heaviest burden of industrial pollution. What is being framed as a liberation of energy pr
Trump EPA repeals pollution limits on fossil fuel power plants
Increased air pollution from power plants will harm public health through respiratory diseases and other pollution-related illnesses.