Presidential Document2025-06936
Regulatory Relief for Certain Stationary Sources To Promote American Energy
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April 21, 2025
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April 8, 2025
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 75 (Monday, April 21, 2025)]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
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Vol. 90
Monday,
No. 75
April 21, 2025
Part II
The President
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Proclamation 10914--Regulatory Relief for Certain Stationary Sources To
Promote American Energy
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The President
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Proclamation 10914 of April 8, 2025
Regulatory Relief for Certain Stationary Sources
To Promote American Energy
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
1. Coal-fired electricity generation is essential to
ensuring that our Nation's grid is reliable and that
electricity is affordable for the American people, and
to promoting our Nation's energy security. The Federal
Government plays a pivotal role in ensuring that the
Nation's power supply remains secure and reliable.
Forcing energy producers to comply with unattainable
emissions controls jeopardizes this mission.
2. On May 7, 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency
published a final rule titled National Emissions
Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Coal- and Oil-
Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units Review of
the Residual Risk and Technology Review, 89 FR 38508
(Rule), which amended the preexisting Mercury and Air
Toxics Standards (MATS) rule to make it more stringent.
The Rule's effective date was July 8, 2024. Id. Its
compliance date is July 8, 2027, 3 years after its
effective date. See 89 FR 38519.
3. The Rule places severe burdens on coal-fired power
plants and, through its indirect effects, on the
viability of our Nation's coal sector. Specifically,
the Rule requires compliance with standards premised on
the application of emissions-control technologies that
do not yet exist in a commercially viable form. The
current compliance timeline of the Rule therefore
raises the unacceptable risk of the shutdown of many
coal-fired power plants, eliminating thousands of jobs,
placing our electrical grid at risk, and threatening
broader, harmful economic and energy security effects.
This in turn would undermine our national security, as
these effects would leave America vulnerable to
electricity demand shortages, increased dependence on
foreign energy sources, and potential disruptions of
our electricity and energy supplies, particularly in
times of crisis.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the
United States of America, by the authority vested in me
by the Constitution and the laws of the United States
of America, including section 112(i)(4) of the Clean
Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 7412(i)(4), do hereby proclaim that
certain stationary sources subject to the Rule, as
identified in Annex I of this proclamation, are exempt
from compliance with the Rule for a period of 2 years
beyond the Rule's compliance date--i.e., for the period
beginning July 8, 2027, and concluding July 8, 2029
(Exemption). The effect of this Exemption is that,
during this 2-year period, these stationary sources are
subject to the compliance obligations that they are
currently subject to under the MATS as the MATS existed
prior to the Rule. In support of this Exemption, I
hereby make the following determinations:
a. The technology to implement the Rule is not
available. Such technology does not exist in a
commercially viable form sufficient to allow
implementation of and compliance with the Rule by its
compliance date of July 8, 2027.
b. It is in the national security interests of the
United States to issue this Exemption for the reasons
stated in paragraph 3 of this proclamation.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
ninth.
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