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EPA urged not to disadvantage the West in mercury regulations.(News)
WASHINGTON, DC--Thirty-eight members of the U.S. House and Senate, and Republican and Democrat governors from across the West, all are urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) not to disadvantage the West as it devises a program for reducing mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants.
In a letter sent in September to EPA Acting Administrator Marianne Horinko, the Senators and Congressional Representatives expressed their concern over EPA's plans to develop regulations for mercury emissions from electric utilities known as the utility mercury maximum achievable control technology (MACT) standard. They urged EPA "to use its authority to establish a flexible standard that accounts for regional differences in coal types, and in the environmental impact of mercury emissions.
Separately, at a recent meeting in Big Sky, MT, Western governors passed a resolution urging EPA to "evaluate the differences between the various coal types and the costs of controlling mercury emissions from plants burning those coals when setting the mercury MACT standard." They also told ...
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