The Low IQ of the Obama EPA Mercury Rule
Just how stupid was the Obama EPA mercury rule for coal-fired power plants? You won’t believe it.
The Trump EPA is proposing to repair some of the junk science used to justify the Obama EPA’s Mercury and Air Toxics Standard (MATS), a 2012 rule that imposed stringent mercury emissions standards on coal-fired power plants and that led to the (ongoing) shutdowns of many US coal plants.
You can read about the rule and its history at the EPA web site. But below is today’s point.
The Obama EPA estimated the (power plant compliance) costs of the rule to be about $10 BILLION per year. But the Obama EPA could only estimated a maximum of $6 MILLION in direct benefits from the rules mandated reduction in smokestack mercury emissions.
https://junkscience.com/2018/12/the-low-iq-of-the-obama-epa-mercury-rule/#more-95408
