Meredith Hankins '16 Talks to NPR About Planned Rollbacks to Power Plant Pollution Limits

Meredith Hankins ’16 spoke to NPR’s Up First on June 12 about the Trump administration’s plans to roll back limits on greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. fossil fuel-fired power plants.

As NPR’s Jeff Brady notes in the report, the Environmental Protection Agency maintains that gas- and coal-powered plants, long established as the second worst pollution source after transportation, currently produce only a small fraction of greenhouse gases – around 3%.

“This action would be pretty laughable if the stakes weren’t so high,” Hankins, senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council, told Brady. “This administration is actually trying to argue that the largest industrial source of carbon pollution is somehow insignificant to the problem of climate change.”