Senators Try to Kill EPA Effort to Reduce Mercury and Toxic Air Pollution
Wednesday, 20 June 2012 00:00
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report
The Senate is expected to vote Wednesday on a Republican proposal to
stop the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from implementing new
rules that would reduce the amount of dangerous pollutants such as
mercury, lead and arsenic emitted from coal burning power plants and
prevent more than 100,000 heart and asthma attacks each year.
Lawmakers backing the proposal, led by Sen. James Inhofe
(R-Oklahoma), claim the rules are part of the Obama administration's job
killing "war on coal."
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