EPA MODELING CITES BENEFITS OF MERCURY TRADING IN INTERSTATE AIR RULE

EPA will soon unveil long-awaited modeling data on the combined impact of the administration's controversial mercury emissions plan and the "co-benefits" resulting from the agency's rule on pollution transported across states, according to a top air program official. High-level agency officials promised several months ago that EPA would conduct additional research on the mercury rule, but until now they have not elaborated on what that research might entail. But states and other outside groups, who have already analyzed the combined...