![]() ![]() ![]() Physical structures have been the foundation of his business career, and building walls and ships employs more and different workers than writing algorithms does. The decision also is consistent with the President’s aversion to discussing cybersecurity, such as protecting the 2020 elections from hackers. Trump’s abrupt April 30 decision to change a section of the Navy budget he had approved earlier this year will please many bipartisan members of Congress, some of whom had vowed to keep the Truman - and a 355-vessel fleet with 12 aircraft carriers - afloat if Trump didn’t. “Navies must become information enterprises who happen to operate on, over, under, and from the sea a vast difference from a 355 ship mindset.” The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 1.5 million members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.“This time technology, not the naval service, or its opponents, have imposed a definition of what navies will be for the rest of the 21st Century,” it says. “We will fight to reverse this decision and make sure the Trump administration prioritizes protecting our health and wildlife over padding the pockets of polluters.” “The EPA is tossing out safeguards that would finally address our nation’s leading source of toxic water pollution while the drinking water of millions of Americans hangs in the balance,” Crystal said. However, in April, utilities and electric industry groups petitioned the EPA to reconsider the ruling. The EPA proposed the ELG rule in 2013, noting that steam electric power plants contribute the majority of all toxic pollution discharged into surface waters by all industries, a level which will only increase. The EPA’s original environmental assessment for the ELG rule concluded that many power plants are discharging wastewater that is deadly to fish, decreases ecosystem biodiversity and compromises drinking water quality. In a recent comment letter, the Center’s attorneys argued that the EPA violated the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act by delaying the rule without first consulting with appropriate federal wildlife agencies and completing an environmental impact statement. The heavy metals commonly detected in power plant wastewater can cause severe health problems, including cancer and lowered IQ among children, as well as deformities and reproductive harm in fish and wildlife. The ELG rule would require that steam-powered electricity plants take economically achievable measures to reduce wastewater streams of heavy metals, including mercury, arsenic and lead. ![]() ![]() Today’s decision postpones compliance deadlines for the Steam Electric Effluent Limitation Guidelines (ELG) rule, originally set to begin in November 2018. “This mind-bogglingly dangerous decision threatens our children’s well-being and the survival of endangered wildlife.” “It’s deeply disturbing to see the Trump administration giving power plants permission to keep dumping toxic metals like arsenic into our rivers and drinking water supplies,” said Howard Crystal, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. Enforcement of the rule would have reduced the amount of toxic heavy metals and other pollutants entering waterways by 1.4 billion pounds a year. WASHINGTON- The Environmental Protection Agency today finalized its decision to delay portions of an Obama-era rule limiting toxic metals in wastewater discharged from steam-powered electricity plants. For Immediate Release, September 13, 2017Ĭontact: Howard Crystal, (202) 809-6926, EPA Rolls Back Limits on Toxic Heavy Metal Pollution From Power Plants ![]()
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