EPA Unveils 'Roadmap' Approach In Scaled-Back Mercury Strategy

EPA has unveiled a "roadmap" detailing current agency activities on controlling mercury releases in the environment, three years after state officials and environmentalists called for the agency to adopt more aggressive measures in its national strategy for dealing with the toxin. The July 5 plan , EPA's Roadmap for Mercury , describes progress EPA has made in recent years in reducing mercury, as well as ongoing mercury control efforts. According to the report, air emissions of mercury --- a potent...