New Sierra Club Dashboard Calculates Toll of Trump EPA Rollbacks

Washington, D.C. - Today, the Sierra Club unveiled a new toolthat shows the pollution toll of the Trump Administration's planned rollbacks of the Environmental Protection Agency's safeguards on coal pollution.

The Trump Coal Pollution Dashboard provides data on how much pollution would be reduced by five of the EPA's major guardrails currently under threat by the Trump administration: the Good Neighbor Plan, Regional Haze standards, Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, Effluent Limitation Guidelines, and Greenhouse Gas standards. These safeguards are in place to curb emissions of nitrogen oxides, mercury, sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, wastewater pollution, and other toxic chemicals from coal plants.

According to the Trump Coal Pollution Dashboard, if these standards are eliminated, in each year after the regulation would have required changes, coal-fired power plants could emit approximately:

• 47,084 tons more nitrogen oxides (Good Neighbor Plan)
• 62,175 tons more nitrogen oxides and 431,424 tons more sulfur dioxide (Regional Haze state plans)
• 868 pounds more mercury and 2,597 tons more fine particulate matter (MATS)
• 325,541 tons more wastewater pollution (Effluent Limitation Guidelines)
• 532 million metric tons more carbon dioxide (Greenhouse Gas standards)

The Trump Coal Pollution Dashboard also includes individual analysis of the five standards for every coal-fired power plant in the U.S.

Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign Director Laurie Williams issued the following statement:

"The Trump Coal Pollution Dashboard demonstrates clearly that with every executive order, Donald Trump is recklessly releasing tons and tons of toxic, deadly chemicals into our air. These EPA safeguards were put in place to shield our communities from toxins that poison children, cause more asthma attacks, more heart attacks, and more premature deaths.

"The American people should be outraged that in the first few months of his presidency, Donald Trump has so callously attacked these lifesaving standards and given Big Coal a free pass to make Americans sicker with no consequence. The Sierra Club will continue to fight these dangerous rollbacks and defend our people from more deadly pollution."

About the Sierra Club

The Sierra Club is America's largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization, with millions of members and supporters. In addition to protecting every person's right to get outdoors and access the healing power of nature, the Sierra Club works to promote clean energy, safeguard the health of our communities, protect wildlife, and preserve our remaining wild places through grassroots activism, public education, lobbying, and legal action. For more information, visit www.sierraclub.org.