EPA sets up email address where ‘regulated community’ can request exemption to evade air pollution rulesDonald Trump’s administration has offered fossil fuel companies an extraordinary opportunity to evade air pollution rules by simply emailing the US president to ask him to exempt them.Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has set up a new email address where what it calls the “regulated community” can request a presidential exemption from their requirements under the Clean Air Act, which is used to regulate dangerous toxins emitted from polluting sources. Continue reading...
The Trump administration's EPA created an email address for fossil fuel companies to request exemptions from air pollution regulations under the Clean Air Act. This allows companies to potentially bypass rules on toxins emitted from sources like coal and oil power plants. Environmental groups criticize the move as an attempt to circumvent established pollution limits, while the EPA defends it as a way for the "regulated community" to seek exemptions.
