Under the Trump administration’s proposed E.P.A. changes, the dirtiest coal plants could stay dirty.
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The plan would let plants nearing retirement be refurbished and keep running for years without adding costly modern pollution controls. Those controls, called scrubbers, remove millions of tons a year of a pollutant blamed for respiratory disease. |
“This is power plant life-extension rule masquerading as a climate rule,” said one former federal official. |
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