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EPA administrator Michael Regan on undoing the toxic legacy of power plants in the US

“We all understand the sense of urgency.”

Today, we’re laying that suite of standards out so that the industry has adequate time to prepare for investment and strategic planning in a way that will comply with these rules in a very cost-effective manner. I’ve heard you speak really passionately over the years about environmental justice and ending the legacy of fossil fuels disproportionately polluting communities of color and low-income neighborhoods. When you spend time with families who have been impacted by cancer for multiple generations, when you see how close some of these homes are to chemical facilities and coal ash dump sites, you quickly realize that there are things that we can do, that we must do, that the president has asked us to do.

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