LABOR CALL TO DELAY STATE MERCURY RULE COULD PRESAGE INDUSTRY PUSH

Mine workers are urging coal-rich Pennsylvania to delay developing new rules for combating mercury emissions from power plants until after the first phase of EPA's controversial mercury rule is complete, an argument that industry sources say could foreshadow how companies fight a growing number of state efforts to control the toxin. A host of states have grown frustrated by EPA's cap-and-trade rule to control mercury emissions -- which calls for a 70 percent reduction after 2018 -- and state officials...