Pennsylvania Lawmakers Consider Effort To Stop State Mercury Rule

August 24, 2005
A bipartisan group of Pennsylvania lawmakers may launch a legislative effort to bar the state from adopting a mercury rule stricter than the new federal plan to cut mercury emissions from power plants. Sources in the offices of Sen. Mary Jo White, the Republican chairwoman of Pennsylvania's Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, and Raphael Musto, the ranking Democrat on the same committee, say a legislative effort is "not off the table" following the Aug. 16 vote by the state's...


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