{"id":29839,"date":"2025-06-04T01:19:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T01:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/as-trump-administration-eases-epa-regulations-houston-could-pay-a-price\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T01:19:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T01:19:22","slug":"as-trump-administration-eases-epa-regulations-houston-could-pay-a-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/as-trump-administration-eases-epa-regulations-houston-could-pay-a-price\/","title":{"rendered":"As Trump administration eases EPA regulations, Houston could pay a price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Washington<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 Since President Trump took office in January, his Environmental Protection Agency <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/epa-rollback-3-ways-affect-americans-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">has been both slashing and reconsidering<\/a><\/span> dozens of rules designed to fight pollution. The White House <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/epa-ord-scientists-research-trump-administration-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">is also firing<\/a><\/span> many of the EPA staffers who enforce the rules that remain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This week, CBS News visited a Houston neighborhood that&#8217;s near an NRG Energy coal-fired power plant, the largest in Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When CBS News <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/epa-trump-air-pollution\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">visited the same neighborhood<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in December, Mr. Trump had just been elected to a second term, promising the energy industry that he would roll back environmental\u202fregulations that <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/greenhouse-gas-emissions-inventory-report-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">protect air quality<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think of pollution as a silent and invisible killer,&#8221; Dr. Winston Liaw, chair of the Health Systems and Population Health Sciences Department at the University of Houston, told CBS News. <\/p>\n<p>Liaw treats patients who run a higher risk of lung disease, asthma and heart attacks due to emissions from oil refineries, chemical plants and coal plants in the Houston area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He explained how the air in Houston can impact human health. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are these tiny particles, and they&#8217;re so small that they bypass a lot of our defenses,&#8221; Liaw said. &#8220;And then they start injuring all sorts of tissue in our body.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/10962247.2018.1537984?link_id=20&amp;can_id=7e3e388f62120b9c0f81d2422c14eef2&amp;source=email-particulate-matters-faith-action&amp;email_referrer=email_925997&amp;email_subject=particulate-matters-faith-action&amp;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2018 study<\/a> from Rice University found that pollution from the NRG plant contributes to 177\u202fpremature deaths per year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In April, the Trump administration\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/04\/rregulatory-relief-for-certain-stationary-sources-to-promote-american-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">gave<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/www.epa.gov\/system\/files\/documents\/2025-04\/regulatory-relief-for-certain-stationary-annex-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">68 plants<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 including the NRG plant in the Rice study \u2014 a two-year exemption from complying with federal regulations intended to lower mercury emissions, a powerful\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/www.epa.gov\/mercury\/health-effects-exposures-mercury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">toxin<\/a>\u00a0that can affect the brain. <\/p>\n<p>CBS News analyzed the Trump administration&#8217;s exemptions and found that nearly 65% of these plants are located within 3 miles of low-income, minority communities. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bottom line is, who&#8217;s more at risk are poor people,&#8221; said Ben Jealous, executive director of the Sierra Club, an environmental advocacy group that has led an effort to try and close almost two-thirds of the nation&#8217;s coal plants. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you start increasing production of coal-fired power plants, you&#8217;re going to kill more people, and you&#8217;re going to cause more heart attacks, and you&#8217;re going to cause more asthma attacks,&#8221; Jealous said. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement provided to CBS News, NRG Energy said its &#8220;coal units operate in compliance with the current Mercury Air Toxics Standards (MATS) and will operate in compliance with any future MATS requirements.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a separate statement, the Trump administration said Biden-era coal plant regulations &#8220;stacked burdensome regulations on top of the longstanding Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, raising the risk of coal-fired plants shutting down \u2013 which would eliminate thousands of jobs, strain our electrical grid, and undermine our national security by leaving America vulnerable to electricity shortages.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jealous argues that coal is not a more reliable energy source than renewable energies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The argument that coal gives you more reliable energy isn&#8217;t valid,&#8221; Jealous said. &#8220;Solar, wind and batteries gives you the most reliable, the most resilient grid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, he said, for the people of Houston and across the country, renewable energy means less pollution.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"chartbeat\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation component--type-recirculation-collection\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a 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