Thursday approved an attempt to reverse the Environmental Conservation Organization of Senate Clean Air Act and designed to limit the most dangerous seven Air -pollutor That is emitted by heavy industry.
The 52-46 team-line vote has been identified for the first time in the 55 year history of Clean Air Act that the Congress has moved to weaken the power of landmark environment law.
The Senate Republicans used the Congressional Review Act to overthrow this control by the Beden Administration in 2021.
The joint resolution now goes to the Republican -led home, where it also expected to pass.
This rule, which is associated with the Clean Air Act, was finalized last year to close a gap so that all the seven dangerous air pollutants needed to reduce their emissions by the maximum achievement for the “main” source, a policy called “once, always in”.
This rule requires art benefits – often chemical plants, oil refinery and other industrial factories are classified as the “main” source of toxic air pollution – always maintains strict pollution control. Even if they adhere to and limit the levels of this contamination, those benefits will always be identified as “main” sources under the rules.
The Trump administration killed the rule in the first term of President Trump, but the EPA under former President Joe Biden finalized and updated it last September. Environmental Advocacy Group Earth Justice says that the rule has forced 5,6 facilities across the country to strengthen air pollution control to adhere to the law.
The question is seven pollutants:
- Allacated lead compounds
- Polycyclic organic matter (POM)
- Mercury
- Hexacchlor
- Polyllorinated Biffenils (PCB)
- 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzophurans (TCDF)
- 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin
Several Republican lawmakers are trying to withdraw the rules. Utah’s Republican Sen Jan Curtis launched the proposal on Thursday. Curtis argued that this rule prevents companies deploying new technology to reduce pollution.
“Under the former administration this rule has closed the door to progress,” said in a statement after the passage of Curtis resolution. “It told agencies that no matter how much they invest to reduce the harmful emissions, they would still be punished with permanent red tape. It is not good science, it is not good administration, and it is certainly not good to the environment. My resolution recovers a simple intelligent enthusiasm: If you cleaner you get credit for it.”
Several environmental groups, however, blast this move.
In a statement to CBS News, Federal Policy Director Melody Reyes said, “Today I am more concerned with children’s health.” “Right now the Senate Republicans have highlighted a few thousand of the easy ways to release toxic air pollutants associated with cancer, congenital defects and brain losses.
Michelle Rus, executive director of the Environmental Protection Network comprising former EPA staff, said in his own statement that “The Congress should strengthen the EPA’s ability to protect the public from Mercury, Benzin and other dangerous emissions, not to remove the rules that are accountable to the pollutants. “
The vote identifies a big victory for fossil fuels and petrochemical industries, which for some time, once always tightened against the rules “. The National Association of Manufacturers, a trade team, sent a letter to Mr Trump after his inauguration that the rule called “burden” and “breathing in our economy” and listed as one of several environmental rules that should be the opposite.
Since January, the Trump administration has made multiple attempts to weaken EPA Unattended And Decrease the staffThe
In an interview with “Face the Nation” last week, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Argument Rollbacks will not have an adverse effect on the health or environment.
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