EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History | US EPA
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The Trump administration exempted power plants serving data centers from Clean Air Act pollution restrictions designed to prevent acid rain. The exemption excludes these facilities from requirements to reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions.
The EPA announced that power plants dedicated solely to data centers are not subject to the federal Clean Air Act's Acid Rain Program. This exempts data center-specific power sources from key pollution regulations.
The Trump administration's EPA finalized the repeal of carbon-pollution standards for coal-fired and new natural-gas power plants on 2026-09-14, with officials citing $300 billion in claimed savings. The rollback reverses Biden-era greenhouse gas emission requirements.
On September 14–15, 2026, the Trump administration's EPA announced plans to repeal carbon emission standards for power plants at a G20 meeting. The agency proposed rescinding all remaining greenhouse gas emissions requirements for the power sector.
On 2026-09-18, a federal judge in Rhode Island ruled that the Trump administration unlawfully terminated a $7 billion 'Solar for All' program intended to make solar power accessible to over 900,000 lower-income Americans. The ruling challenges the administration's termination of the EPA grant initiative.
President Trump dismissed warnings from tech CEOs about artificial intelligence safety on September 13–14, 2026, arguing that maintaining US technological leadership over China takes priority. Trump is scheduled to meet with AI leaders on September 29 to discuss safety measures, following stark warnings from Bill Gates.
The Environmental Protection Agency is considering a rule change that would allow states to control the level of public participation in data center permitting decisions. AI companies supporting data center expansion efforts back the proposed regulatory shift.
The EPA announced on September 14–16, 2026, plans to repeal federal rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions from coal and natural gas power plants, completing a rollback of Obama and Biden-era climate regulations. The agency claimed power plant emissions have minimal climate impact, assertions contradicted by its own data showing the power industry as the second-largest emissions source.
Oh no.
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EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws. EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws.
On September 3, 2026, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed a plan that could restrict public access to information and comment periods for proposed AI data centers, which have faced community backlash. The proposal would make it harder for the public to engage with data center approval processes.
The Trump administration halted a study that would have identified industries dumping forever chemicals (PFAS) into wastewater, according to two former EPA officials. The survey was meant to help regulators understand contamination sources.
There’s some deep irony in Trump cancelling a study on Alzheimer’s. Bet if a journalist asks him why he did it he doesn’t even remember the reason.
Donald Trump’s hand-picked EPA administrator oversaw a process that let chemical giant Bayer choose its own regulatory framework for a controversial weedkiller. Newly released internal EPA documents show that Bayer was offered a choice from a menu of regulation options for their twice-banned weedkiller dicamba.
NEW: 17 Trump-appointed EPA officials were paid a combined $3 million by the energy industry before they joined the agency, according to CREW analysis. Many of these appointees are now leading the EPA's rollbacks, prioritizing corporate interests over environmental concerns.
Eight unrelated items spanning April 2024 to November 2026: WHO partnership meetings with Netherlands and Spain, a research paper on LLM agent security, a weather alert, congressional bill tracking, FCC rulemaking, and an AI labor-market report. No coherent single story.
com/conservation... I miss the days when the EPA actually believed in science.
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The Environmental Protection Agency announced on September 4, 2026, that it is seeking additional public comments on a proposed rule to redefine "waters of the United States" under the Clean Water Act. The rule, based on a 2023 Supreme Court decision, would significantly narrow the scope of wetlands protected under the law.