New EPA Portal Offers Exemptions To Clean Air Rules

NewsNation reports:

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has set up a portal allowing polluters to request exemptions to nine Clean Air Act rules. The EPA posted online this week that it had set up an email address allowing companies to more easily request such presidential exemptions.

The news comes after the EPA recently announced that it planned to roll back a large suite of Biden-era rules, including limits on mercury pollution from power plants and limits on emissions of cancer-causing ethylene oxide.

Presidential exemptions could be a way to curtail rules like these while the lengthy legal and regulatory process plays out to formally overturn them.

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