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Trump administration finalizes coal plant pollution rollback

by Associated Press
| September 1, 2020 1:03 AM

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Trump administration on Monday finalized its weakening of an Obama-era rule aimed at reducing polluted wastewater from coal-burning power plants that has contaminated streams, lakes and underground aquifers

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