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华盛顿，3月30日（路透社）—— 一个由健康与环保组织组成的联盟周一起诉美国环境保护署，指控其废除限制燃煤电厂汞和其他有害空气污染物的联邦标准，称此次监管倒退将儿童和弱势群体置于风险之中。
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- 该联盟包括地球正义、美国肺脏协会、自然资源保护委员会以及美国儿科学会，已向美国哥伦比亚特区巡回上诉法院提起诉讼。
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- 据环保基金会数据，今年2月，特朗普政府麾下的美国环保署废除了拜登政府2024年更新的《汞与空气有毒物质标准》。该标准原本计划将燃煤电厂的允许汞排放量降低70%，将镍、砷、铅等其他有毒金属排放量降低三分之二，并预计到2037年可节省4.2亿美元的医疗成本。
- 本届政府去年还针对老旧燃煤电厂出台了一项为期两年的空气质量标准豁免令，让部分排放量最大的电厂免于合规。该联盟称，豁免令出台后，全国范围内的二氧化硫排放量上升了18%，具有神经毒性的汞排放量上升了9%。
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- 该联盟在一份声明中表示：“本届政府不仅在放宽监管规则，更是在彻底拆除原本用于监测这些烟囱排放物的基础设施。它不仅允许燃煤电厂向我们的空气和食品供应链中排放更多具有神经毒性的汞，同时还让面临最高风险的社区无从知晓这一威胁的严峻程度。”
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Health, environmental groups sue EPA for rollback of mercury rule
2026-03-30 7:49 PM UTC / Reuters
By Valerie Volcovici
March 30, 2026 7:49 PM UTC Updated 11 mins ago
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Fisk Coal Station’s smokestack lies dormant in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., as the century-old electric generating plant shut down in 2012 is pressed into service again while the nation’s electrical grids struggle to meet growing demand from data centers, November 17, 2025, in this screengrab from video. REUTERS/Eric Cox/File Photo
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WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters) – A coalition of health and environmental groups on Monday sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for repealing federal standards for coal-fired power plants that limited mercury and other harmful air pollutants, saying that the rollbacks put children and vulnerable people at risk.
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• The coalition of groups, which includes Earthjustice, the American Lung Association, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the American Academy of Pediatrics, filed the lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
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• In February, the Trump administration’s EPA repealed the 2024 update by the Biden administration of the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard, which would have reduced allowable mercury pollution from coal plants by 70%, emissions of nickel, arsenic, lead and other toxic metals by two-thirds and would have saved an estimated $420 million in health costs through 2037, according to the Environmental Defense Fund.
• The administration last year also issued a two-year exemption from air quality standards for old coal-fired power plants that let some of the biggest emitting facilities off the hook. Since the exemptions were issued, the coalition said sulfur dioxide emissions rose 18% nationally and neurotoxic mercury emissions rose 9%.
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• “This administration is not just rolling back rules, it is eliminating the monitoring infrastructure needed to know what is coming out of these smokestacks in the first place. It is allowing coal plants to spew out more neurotoxic mercury into our air and food supply, while simultaneously keeping the communities most at risk in the dark about how serious that threat is,” the coalition said in a statement.
Reporting by Valerie Volcovici; Editing by Aurora Ellis
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