EPA CITES STATE LAWS TO PUSH 'BIG THREE' ON VOLUNTARY MERCURY PLAN

EPA is citing growing state efforts to require auto companies to pay for removing mercury switches from millions of vehicles that will soon be scrapped, in an effort to restart stalled talks on establishing a voluntary national program for preventing mercury emissions when smelting the vehicles, EPA and other sources say. The talks -- which include the Big Three automakers, the American Iron & Steel Institute (AISI), the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries and environmental groups, including Environmental Defense and...