Regulatory Relief for Certain Stationary Sources To Further Promote American Energy

Proclamation 10956 of July 17, 2025

Regulatory Relief for Certain Stationary Sources
To Further 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 to 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, pursuant to section 112 of the
Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 7412, 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,
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 paragraphs 1 and 3 of this proclamation.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
seventeenth day of July, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and fiftieth.

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