EPA scores big win to limit mercury in power plants

The Environmental Protection Agency took home a sweeping victory Tuesday when an appeals court upheld the agency’s pollution limits for mercury and air toxics from power plants.

The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld EPA’s rule, known as MATS, denying challenges from states, utilities and industry groups that argued the rules came out of a flawed regulatory process and illegally imposed exorbitant costs on power producers that will force dozens of power plants to shut down.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/epa-mercury-power-plants-earth-day-105728.html#ixzz2z3N0B5Xt



EPA scores big win to limit mercury in power plants