WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 -- The Senate Environment & Public Works Committee issued the following press release:
EPA adopted new policy in response to lobbying from data center companies and in furtherance of Trump's data center-over-people agenda
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), and Representative Jennifer McClellan (D-VA-04), last month launched a bicameral investigation into the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) guidance exempting data center power plants from the Acid Rain Program (ARP).
By EPA's own admission (https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2026-07/epa-issues-clarification-on-islanded-power-generators-and-acid-rain-pr...