Suit On EPA Air Toxics Rule Could Fuel Battle Over Mercury Plan

October 8, 2004
Environmentalists' litigation challenging EPA's air toxics rule for industrial boilers could help activists in any future challenge to provisions in the administration's controversial mercury rule that set different emissions standards for different coal types, environmentalists and industry sources say. Specifically, the maximum achievable control technology (MACT) rules for industrial boilers and mercury both call for separate standards, or subcategories, based on the type of fuel being regulated. Environmentalists believe the Bush administration is establishing requirements that distinguish between coal or...


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