DELAYED MERCURY MEETING FUELS DOUBTS ON EPA'S COST-BENEFIT REVIEW

EPA staff and scientists say a decision by agency air chief Jeffrey Holmstead to postpone a workshop on the cardiovascular health effects of mercury confirms their long-standing suspicions about the administration's commitment to fully examine the benefits of regulating the pollutant. The administration is under a court-ordered deadline to release a final rule on regulating power plant mercury emissions. But postponement of the health effects workshop will likely push back a full cost-benefit review of those standards until after their...