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Trump’s wave of deregulation aims to make it easier to quickly build new data centers and the fossil fuel infrastructure to power them
“The Trump administration is rolling back important health protections to protect children from toxins like mercury just to save the coal industry some money,” Nicholas Morales, an attorney at the nonprofit environmental law group Earthjustice, said in a statement. press release today.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized the repeal of mercury and air toxics standards strengthened by the Biden administration in 2024. The Trump administration is working to restore the standards to what they were in 2012 when the Obama administration initially set them. Weakening regulations should save $78 million annually starting in 2028, according to one report. EPA fact sheet.
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