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LINK EPA restores rule to limit power-plant mercury emissions

EPA Administrator Michael Regan speaks during a press conference on President Biden's Building a Better America agenda at the Shockoe Retention Basin in Richmond, Va., Friday, January 28, 2022. (Alexa Welch Edlund/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)
EPA Administrator Michael Regan speaks during a press conference on President Biden's Building a Better America agenda at the Shockoe Retention Basin in Richmond, Va., Friday, January 28, 2022. (Alexa Welch Edlund/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)

WASHINGTON ✈ — In yet another reversal of a Trump-era action, the Environmental Protection Agency said Monday it will resume enforcement of a rule that limits power plant emissions of mercury and other hazardous pollutants.

The EPA action restores a 2012 rule imposed under President Barack Obama that was credited with curbing mercury’s devastating neurological damage to children and prevented thousands of premature deaths while reducing the risk of heart attacks and cancer, among other public health benefits.

snytiger6 9 Feb 1
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There's Democrats that give a damn about the planet and most repubs don't.

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