WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 -- In the last days of the Trump administration, the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to issue a rule today seeking to exempt some of the nation's biggest polluters-including producers of oil and gas, chemicals, cement, steel and aluminum-from future Clean Air Act limits on their climate-changing emissions.
The rule, ostensibly applicable to power plants, in fact, would leave the current pollution standards in place. Instead, the rule would erect new obstacles to regulating any other industry, which would worsen the climate crisis and harm the health of millions of people.
The following is a statement by David Doniger, senior strategic director of the Climate & Clean Energy program at NRDC (the Natural Resour...