NEW EVIDENCE SHOWS CHEAPER MERCURY CONTROLS FOR WESTERN COAL

December 1, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO -- New evidence that capturing mercury emissions from Western coal may be half as expensive as previously thought could lend weight to state efforts to issue mercury standards that are stricter than the controversial federal rule, EPA sources and technical experts say. EPA's clean air mercury rule, issued this spring and now subject to court challenges, allows significant leeway for power plants that use what is known as sub-bituminous coal, which is mined chiefly in the West. The...


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