{"id":252166,"date":"2024-06-04T20:52:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T20:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/stronger-standards-better-monitoring-will-protect-communities-from-toxic-pollution\/"},"modified":"2024-06-04T23:55:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T23:55:53","slug":"stronger-standards-better-monitoring-will-protect-communities-from-toxic-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/stronger-standards-better-monitoring-will-protect-communities-from-toxic-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"Stronger Standards, Better Monitoring Will Protect Communities from Toxic Pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">(This post was co-authored by EDF analyst Jolie Villegas)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">The Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s recent updates of the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards include several steps that provide substantial public health benefits by reducing toxic air pollution from coal plants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">In our last blog post we wrote about one of those steps \u2013 <u><span style=\"color: #0563c1\">closing the \u201clignite loophole\u201d<\/span><\/u> that allows power plants that burn lignite coal to avoid commonsense pollution limits that protect people\u2019s health and safety.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"elementtoproof\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">There\u2019s a second step that EPA took in updating the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards \u2013 requiring coal-fired power plants to use a Continuous Emissions Monitoring System so that people and communities are protected from dangerous pollution 365 days a year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">And as a third step to protect communities from harmful exposures, the updated Mercury and Air Toxics Standards meaningfully strengthen&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2024\/06\/04\/stronger-standards-better-monitoring-will-protect-communities-from-toxic-pollution\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read the full article originally published at blogs.edf.org.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(This post was co-authored by EDF analyst Jolie Villegas) \u00a0 The Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s recent updates of the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards include several steps that provide substantial public health benefits by reducing toxic air pollution from coal plants. \u00a0 In our last blog post we wrote about one of those steps \u2013 closing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":229114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[363],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - 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