NEW DATA ON EPA MERCURY RULE MAY HELP DEFENSE IN KEY LEGAL FIGHTS

New scientific data EPA unveiled to justify its decision not to set strict technology-based standards for power plant mercury emissions could help the agency defend its controversial mercury rule in upcoming lawsuits challenging the regulation, industry sources and environmentalists say. The agency is citing these scientific data in its reversal of a Clinton administration finding that power plant mercury emissions must be regulated under section 112 of the Clean Air Act, which sets strict standards for companies to install emissions...