EPA Advises Regional Staff On Mercury Cap-And-Trade Benefits

December 14, 2004
EPA headquarters is advising regional administrators and staff on the benefits of the agency's cap-and-trade mercury proposal, as well as the likely global origins of most U.S. mercury contamination, as part of an agency effort to educate its staff about the pollutant, according to agency sources. Regional administrators and other staff in recent weeks have attended the eight-hour training sessions, referred to as "mercury school" by some EPA officials, at agency headquarters in Washington. The effort comes three months before...


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