EPA STUDY BACKS REJECTED HARVARD EFFORT ON MERCURY CONTROL BENEFITS

A study of the cardiovascular benefits of utility mercury controls conducted for EPA's water office backs similar findings in a Harvard study that the agency rejected when it developed its controversial rule regulating power plant emissions, according to a copy of the study obtained by Inside EPA . The EPA study has emerged at a time when agency officials are under fire from Democratic lawmakers for rejecting the Harvard study, with the critics saying the agency's failure to consider cardiovascular...