GAO Nearing Completion Of Key Audit On Mercury Emission Controls

Congressional investigators are moving forward with a study of mercury-emission control technologies at electric utilities in a report they expect to issue in early 2005, just prior to EPA's release of its controversial mercury rule that is due by March 15. Nine senators, led by James Jeffords (I-VT), last spring asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, to provide information on "the availability, cost, effectiveness and use of technologies that power plants might install to limit...