Environmentalists and public health advocates are going to court to fight the Trump administration's move to rewrite Obama-era rules limiting water pollution from coal-fired power plants. The action challenges the decision by EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt last month seeking to rewrite the 2015 water pollution regulations. "These standards would have tackled the biggest source of toxic water pollution in the country, and now the Trump EPA is trying to toss them out. "The EPA didn't even pretend to seek public input before plowing ahead with this rollback that could allow millions of pounds of preventable toxic pollution to go into our water." Pruitt acted last month at the behest of the industry-funded Utility Water Act Group, which claimed the new EPA pollution limits would result in plant closures and job losses.

Source: ABC News May 03, 2017 19:37 UTC