Historic ‘mercury and air toxics standards’ meet 20-year old requirement to cut dangerous smokestack emissions
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–December 21, 2011. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, the first national standards to protect American families from power plant emissions of mercury and toxic air pollution like arsenic, acid gas, nickel, selenium, and cyanide. The standards will slash emissions of these dangerous pollutants by relying on widely available, proven pollution…
