The real target of the refinery bill is the Clean Air Act’s New Source Review (NSR). The NSR program requires owners of aging power plants and industrial facilities to modernize pollution controls whenever they expand their facilities and increase emissions. But the refinery bill doesn’t just exempt refineries from New Source Review requirements. It exempts ALL energy industry facilities—approximately 20,000 large industrial facilities and power plants across the country—not just on the Gulf Coast.
And next up: drilling ANWR. Fuck.
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