Stricter emissions standards for coal- and oil-fired power plants, imposed by the Biden administration in 2024 and repealed by the Trump administration in February, would be restored using the Congressional Review Act under
The Environmental Protection Agency regularly reviews the standards limiting power plant emissions of hazardous air pollutants, such as mercury, lead, and arsenic, under the Clean Air Act.
The joint resolution would reinstate a 2024 EPA rule that, beginning in July 2027, would lower the amount of allowable emissions of filterable particulate matter from coal power and mercury from lignite coal power. It ...