EPA Fighting State Adoption Of Strict Mercury Control Regulations

EPA officials are taking a series of steps designed to stop Pennsylvania and other states from enacting strict mercury control plans that bar credit trading and impose steeper emissions reduction requirements than EPA's controversial regulation. Agency officials last week testified before a Pennsylvania Senate panel in favor of a state bill that would block the state's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) from finalizing its own mercury rule, and instead require regulators to adopt EPA's rule. EPA officials are also seeking...