NAFTA Probe Of Mercury Rule May Help Potential Suit By Environmentalists

A request by environmentalists for a NAFTA panel to investigate whether EPA's plan to regulate power plants fails to adequately enforce the Clean Water Act could provide the activists with information for future litigation against the agency's controversial mercury proposal, an environmental attorney tracking the issue says. The request also suggests first-time water law arguments that environmentalists could use in any potential lawsuit challenging the Bush administration's mercury plan, although the attorney stresses that groups have not made any determinations...