ACTIVISTS, STATES QUESTION EPA MERCURY ANALYSIS IN PETITIONS ON RULE

Environmentalists and states are raising major questions about a new EPA analysis that forms much of the basis of its controversial new mercury rule, arguing the agency used a faulty methodology to avoid issuing a more stringent standard limiting emissions from power plants. The groups are raising these objections as part of two new regulatory petitions to the agency, which follow several recent lawsuits on the mercury rule and related EPA actions. At issue is a new analysis EPA released...