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Trump tried to have the 2024 PM-2.5 National Ambient Air Quality Standard withdrawn after it had already gone through the entire rule passage process before Trump won the election and was sworn in. It's a major loss and may impact currently operating coal plants but not directly. Other National Ambient Air Quality Standards are in place to make running coal plants in an uncontrolled manner pretty much impossible. Truth be told, most large coal-fired power plants are being doomed through their waste-water discharge limits not necessarily air quality standards. And electricity generated from coal-fired power plants is usually more expensive than natural gas, wind and solar electricity generation so here is another instance of the Trump administration imposing a higher costing service on the general public.

Another example of amateur legal arguments from the Trump administration. Industry has challenged EPA imposed air quality standards multiple times trying to argue the cost of enacting the controls outweighs the benefits and lost every single time.