Revealing that critics have a problem with President Trump following the law and not regulations compelling use of non-existent technology.
New York Times (7/29/25) reports: "In March, the Trump administration created a novel way for companies to potentially avoid complying with environmental rules: Simply send an email to the Environmental Protection Agency and request an exemption. In response, representatives of at least 15 coal-burning power plants, four steel mills, four chemical facilities and two mines wrote emails to the E.P.A. this spring, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.Under an obscure section of the Clean Air Act, the president can temporarily exempt industrial facilities from new rules if their continued operation is in the interest of national security and if the technology required to comply is not widely available. For example, days before leaving office, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. issued a memorandum that allowed medical sterilization facilities to seek exemptions from limits on ethylene oxide emissions. Mr. Biden wrote that the move would prevent a 'serious disruption' to the supply of drugs and medical devices...The Institute for Energy Research, a free-market organization that supports fossil fuels, praised the president for issuing the exemptions while urging the E.P.A. to repeal the underlying rules. 'Given that the current regulations are unworkable and reliant on nonexistent technologies, the E.P.A. should move swiftly to revoke or revise them through proper administrative channels,' the organization wrote in a blog post on Monday."
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"The bill for the cavalier dismissal of coal will eventually come due for the U.S. as a whole, but for the people in the coal industry, and for their families and communities, it is already here."
– RealClearEnergy Editorial Board
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