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Hearing from multiple sources EPA is announcing their #MATS rule tomorrow. Reporters should take screenshots of the benefits of the 2011 rule to prepare. 1/ https://www.epa.gov/mats
And watch this video on the benefits 2/
this video from @JeromeBettis36 3/
In 2011 EPA showed that technology was widely-available to clean up the range of toxic emissions from power plants 4/
In 2011 @LungAssociation released this report that document the health harms of toxic pollution from power plants 5/ https://www.lung.org/getmedia/c3b2b744-7c7e-4941-b0cd-5a5e468515d1/toxic-air-report.pdf.pdf
and @LungAssociation ran Red Carriage ads urging EPA to act to update power plant standards to protect our kids 6/
MATS enjoys strong and vocal bipartisan support including @SenAlexander & @SenatorCarper 7/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/11/12/trump-epa-keep-mercury-pollution-rule-keep-america-healthy-column/4156901002/
Last year, a bipartisan group of Senators wrote to the EPA Administrator "We strongly oppose any action that could lead to the undoing of the Mercury Rule" 8/ https://www.alexander.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/19d7d59f-8a58-468b-85d7-248bd26ecc7d/dear-administrator-wheeler-final-w-signatures.pdf
Electric utilities and labor wrote to urge EPA to keep MATS in place 9/ https://www.eenews.net/assets/2018/07/11/document_gw_04.pdf
In October @LungAssociation hosted a briefing with @SenatorCarper @PublicHealth's Dr Benjamin, @GinaNRDC and @dbrownala this thread has the highlights 10/ https://twitter.com/LungAssociation/status/1184529669032464386?s=20
