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Home » Press Releases » Healthy Climate Wisconsin: The EPA’s suite of four new safeguards to cut power plant pollution puts Wisconsin on a path toward better health, cleaner air and water, and a stable climate
Milwaukee, WI-In a historic announcement today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) enacted a package of new safeguards to reduce power plant pollution, including the first ever standards to cut carbon emissions from coal-fired plants and new gas-fired plants. These new safeguards–which also cut mercury, arsenic, soot, toxic wastewater, and coal ash from coal-fired and new gas plants– w...