Environmentalists turn out in force to oppose Trump coal ash rollbacks
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美国环保署近日举行线上公众意见听证会，众多环保人士强烈反对特朗普政府提出的削弱煤灰清理规定的提案。该提案拟废除拜登政府2024年要求监测废弃电厂煤灰场的规定，并放宽地下水保护标准，转而依赖各州监管，允许其部分情况下绕过国家标准。环保组织批评此举危害国家饮用水安全。
At a virtual public comment hearing hosted by the US Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, a long line of environmental advocates voiced strong opposition to proposed new regulations weakening requirements that utilities must follow in cleaning up toxic coal ash residue at hundreds of sites across the country at which coal was burned to produce electricity.
“The Trump administration has jeopardized the nation’s drinking water supplies as a favor to polluters,” Lisa Evans, senior counsel at Earthjustice and a former EPA attorney, said in a statement. “It’s just not right.”
The Trump administration announced in April that it would repeal a rule put in place in 2024 by the Biden administration’s EPA that required utilities to monitor coal ash sites at inactive coal plants. The Trump EPA also said it would loosen requirements for protecting groundwater near those sites. Now the Trump administration wants to rely on states for coal ash monitoring and enforcement and enable them to bypass national standards in some cases.
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