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The current owner of the White House trump not only almost returned coal thermal power plants, which we wrote about, considering renewable energy an empty lesson, but also decided to cancel the restrictions of these stations on the release of toxic substances into the air, what has been done predecessor Obama.
Old rules to reduce toxic emissions substances invoking various respiratory diseases in humans, and in children – congenital pathology, Trump administration seemed too expensive for coal-fired power plants, and therefore for US energy industry as a whole.
For example, experts of EPA (Department of Protection environment) concluded that the cost of such measures outweighs all the “imaginary” benefits to human health. The thing is, that laws passed by Obama provided for installation expensive equipment to reduce mercury emissions the atmosphere. This measure, implemented at some coal-fired power plants Of the United States has reduced such toxic emissions in 85 percent air. But it all turned out to be too “expensive pleasure. ”
During resuscitation of many closed ones (again under Obama) coal-fired thermal power plants, the question of installing them now such “golden” equipment has become so sharp that the Trump administration is trying to solve it in the easiest way – by force methods without taking into account the requirements of ecologists who literally sound the alarm. But … I think no one is listening to their opinion will, because the US has accumulated a lot of problems in the energy sector, and Trump wants to solve them at the expense of coal TPPs …
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