TIME: “Trump Weakens Rules Limiting Harmful Air Pollution from Coal Plants”
RFF Senior Fellow Bryan Hubbell is quoted in this piece about recent reversals to parts of the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards.
”[The Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS)] has gone through a number of challenges, however, since it was first established. ‘It’s been a bit of a seesaw,’ says Bryan Hubbell, senior fellow at Resources for the Future, who previously managed the EPA’s Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards Risk and Benefits Group and worked on the original 2012 MATS rule...
Hubbell says that, like most of Trump’s recent environmental rollbacks, the move is likely to face legal challenges. ‘This is just one amongst many likely deregulatory efforts,’ he says. ‘I think folks want to make it clear that we’re not going to just let them go incrementally.’
