INSPECTOR GENERAL'S REPORT UNLIKELY TO DELAY EPA MERCURY RULE

The EPA inspector general's (IG) report criticizing the agency's development of its proposed regulation on mercury emissions from power plants is unlikely to delay the final rule's release, according to critics and proponents of the regulation, even though the IG and agency critics have called for delays. The Feb. 3 report says the administration's preferred cap-and-trade approach for regulating mercury emissions from power plants should be strengthened, while all but calling illegal EPA's approach for developing a proposed technology-based standard...