Ars Technica:
https://www.gettyimages.com/collections/bloomberg
“On Friday, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it did not think that current mercury emissions rules placed on coal-fired power plants were “appropriate and necessary,” based on the agency’s revised look at the costs and benefits of the rule...
Consequently, the Trump administration’s EPA is leaving the current MATS rule in place while undercutting the justification for the rule in such a way that it could preclude more stringent mercury standards in the future and could possibly set the stage for looser rules in the future.”
And yet the EPA notes that mercury concentration in fish are increasing. Increases in mercury pollution have human consequences.
