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Trump’s EPA wants to let data centers hide their air pollution
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Just as new data centers face growing backlash from neighboring communities, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to make it harder for people to weigh in on any pollution those centers create. “The state and local authorities closest to the issues and the public should be making the decisions on the permitting process as much as possible, not Washington,” EPA administrator Lee Zeldin said in a statement at the time.
That led to a hearing and elicited thousands of comments to a public notice posted by the local health department, Inside Climate News reported last year.
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- Just as new data centers face growing backlash from neighboring communities, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to make it harder for people to weigh in on any pollution those centers create.
- “The state and local authorities closest to the issues and the public should be making the decisions on the permitting process as much as possible, not Washington,” EPA administrator Lee Zeldin said in a statement at…
- That led to a hearing and elicited thousands of comments to a public notice posted by the local health department, Inside Climate News reported last year.
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- The Vergelink