Laxer car rules will, according to the government’s own projections, lead to an additional 923m tonnes of carbon-dioxide emissions
of a global pandemic of covid-19, a respiratory illness, a sensible time for America to roll back air-pollution regulations? The White House seems to think so. On April 16th the Environmental Protection Agency issued a final recommendation that it was no longer “appropriate and necessary” to regulate the emissions of mercury and other toxins from coal- and oil-fired power plants. Though existing limits remain in place for now, they could well be challenged in court and struck down.
Though the two actions represent a continuation of Donald Trump’s effort to unravel existing environmental regulations of all kinds, the rush now may be prompted by a more concrete concern: a somewhat arcane law known as the Congressional Review Act. This allows Congress to revoke recently issued regulations without going through the typically lengthy bureaucratic fuss. Before Mr Trump’s presidency, the rule had been used just once before.
Any new regulations—including repeals—must be rigorously costed, or else they risk being overturned in the courts. The environmental rules that the Trump administration is rewriting were signed just a few years ago. Their costings then showed social benefits vastly exceeding the compliance costs. To show the opposite now, the Trump administration is employing funny maths. The direct benefits of mercury-pollution reduction are counted very narrowly , while the side benefits of pollution controls are not counted. Similar head-scratching assumptions plague the justifications for reduced car-emissions standards. In both cases the’s own scientific advisory board wrote long critiques of the methodologies used, which seem to have roundly ignored.
Carmakers have tepidly welcomed the reduced fuel-economy standards, which will oblige cars to become 1.5% more efficient each year instead of 5%. Electricity utilities have ranged from receptive to outright hostile to the mercury-rule decision—in part because they have already implemented the costly pollution controls.maintains should not be considered, are also of unfortunately topical importance.
México Últimas Noticias, México Titulares
Similar News:También puedes leer noticias similares a ésta que hemos recopilado de otras fuentes de noticias.
AP-NORC poll: Most losing jobs to virus think they’ll returnWASHINGTON (AP) — One out of every four American adults say someone in their household has lost a job to the coronavirus pandemic, but the vast majority expect those former jobs will return once...
Leer más »
AP-NORC poll: Most losing jobs to virus think they’ll returnOne out of every four American adults say someone in their household has lost a job to the coronavirus pandemic, but the vast majority expect those former jobs will return once the crisis passes, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Forty-six percent
Leer más »
Instagram Filters Are Changing the Way We Think About Makeup'You can create your own reality with your own rules, defy gravity, make textures that don't exist on our planet, and shapes that you’ve never seen in nature.' 🦋
Leer más »
The End of Fast Fashion Is Closer Than You Think'As lines that once defined social categories further blur, more and more customers are looking for brands that reflect this shift away from labels, binaries or limits.'
Leer más »
Here's why some people think Elon Musk and Grimes named their child influenzaGrimes once said internet memes were on to her naming technique.
Leer más »