Mercury Rising
A flood of public comments pushed the Environmental Protection Agency to review its new rule to cut mercury emissions from power plants. Jeff Young reports the rule’s critics ?including some former EPA staffers ?say the agency should take another look at technology that could make deeper, faster, mercury cuts.
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