Reply To: Climate Crisis: Our Last Chance
<p>Its all down to costs</p><p>https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-coal-epa/u-s-limits-on-coal-plant-mercury-emissions-too-costly-trumps-epa-idUKKCN1OR1BS</p><p>Mercury and Air Toxic Standards, or MATS, enacted under former President Barack Obama, coal-burning power plants were required to install expensive equipment to cut output of mercury, which can harm pregnant women and put infants and children at risk of developmental problems.</p><p>Using a different cost analysis to evaluate whether the regulation is needed, Trump’s EPA has decided, its reassessment showed the cost of compliance with MATS was between $7.4 billion to $9.6 billion annually, while the monetized benefits were between $4 million to $6 million, concluding, ” it is not ‘appropriate and necessary’ to regulate HAP (Hazardous Air Pollution) emissions from coal- and oil-fired power plants… because the costs of such regulation grossly outweigh the quantified HAP benefits.”</p>
