Source: Timothy Cama, THE HILL, 3/9/18



The House voted Thursday to loosen certain air pollution standards for a specific kind of coal-fired power plant.
The Satisfying Energy Needs and Saving the Environment Act, which passed 215 to 189, would set less stringent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards for hydrogen chloride and sulfur dioxide emissions from power plants that burn coal refuse, a waste byproduct of the coal mining process.

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