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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Environment - Still more on: "EPA's mercury rule struck down"

Updating this ILB entry from Feb. 18, here is a report from H. Josef Hebert of the AP that appeared nationally. It begins:

WASHINGTON—While arguing in court that states are free to enact tougher mercury controls from power plants, the Bush administration pressured dozens of states to accept a scheme that would let some plants evade cleaning up their pollution, government documents show.
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A week ago, a federal appeals court struck down that industry-friendly approach for mercury reduction. It allowed plants with excessive smokestack emissions to buy pollution rights from other plants that foul the air less.

Internal Environmental Protection Agency documents and e-mails, obtained by the advocacy group Environmental Defense, show attempts over the past two years to blunt state efforts to make their plants drastically reduce mercury pollution instead of trading for credits that would let them continue it.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on February 19, 2008 04:14 PM
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