WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Environmental Protection Agency proposed allowing data centers, power plants, and other industrial polluters to complete major construction on new facilities before obtaining the federal air permits long required under the Clean Air Act.
The following statement is from John Walke, senior attorney for NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council):
"This proposal would allow some of the country’s biggest polluters to break ground on new facilities before anyone determines the health impacts on the families living nearby. By the time that question is answered, the facility is mostly built, hundreds of millions of dollars are sunk into a project, and reversing course becomes a lot harder. The proposal from Trump’s EPA would let data centers, power plants, and other major polluters build first and ask permission later.”
NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) is an international nonprofit environmental organization with more than 3 million members and online activists. Established in 1970, NRDC uses science, policy, law and people power to confront the climate crisis, protect public health and safeguard nature. NRDC has offices in New York City, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Beijing and Delhi (an office of NRDC India Pvt. Ltd).