Trump EPA official comes to Louisville power plant to tout weaker pollution rules

By: Liam Niemeyer

Outlets: Kentucky Lantern

Published: February 20, 2026

Words: 1,164

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 5 days ago

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LOUISVILLE — Republican elected officials and advocates for the coal industry gathered at one of Kentucky’s largest coal-fired power plants to celebrate the Trump administration’s weakening of regulatory curbs on toxic air pollution, including the neurotoxin mercury.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Deputy Administrator David Fotouhi told reporters Friday at the 54-year-old Mill Creek Generating Station in Jefferson County that the federal agency would roll back mercury and air toxics standards to 2012 levels set …

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