National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units: Final Repeal

What the Rule Says It Does

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing the repeal of specific amendments to the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units (EGUs), commonly referred to as the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS), that were promulgated on May 7, 2024. Specifically, the EPA is repealing the revised filterable particulate matter (fPM) emission standard, which serves as a surrogate for non-mercury hazardous air pollutant (HAP) metals for existing coal- fired EGUs; the revised fPM emission standard compliance demonstration requirements; and the revised mercury (Hg) emission standard for lignite-fired EGUs. The EPA is also making technical, non-substantive clarifications to electronic reporting requirements.

This is the rule's own summary, as the Federal Register prints it.

The Orders It Names

• Executive Order 14148: Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions
• Executive Order 14154: Unleashing American Energy
• Executive Order 14179: Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence
• Executive Order 14241: Immediate Measures To Increase American Mineral Production
• Executive Order 14261: Reinvigorating America's Beautiful Clean Coal Industry and Amending Executive Order 14241
• Executive Order 14262: Strengthening the Reliability and Security of the United States Electric Grid

The rule names these orders itself. What it does about them is a reading, and none is recorded here.