Mercury

September 29, 2008 -- WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Barack Obama (D-IL) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Representative Tom Allen (D-ME), and Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA) today announced that Congress passed the Mercury Export Ban Act of 2008 (S.906), a bill introduced in March 2007 to ban the export of mercury from the United States.    » read more »

Calls for Passage of Rule That Would Reduce Mercury and other Emissions

March 18, 2008 -- Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle today was joined by a coalition of industry and environmental leaders to advance a rule requiring coal-fired power plants to reduce mercury emissions by 90%. Once enacted, the rule will cut mercury output by 4,400 pounds a year.    » read more »

BALTIMORE, MD (February 8, 2006) – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia today vacated two Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules that failed to follow the requirements of the Clean Air Act. Maryland, along with 18 states or state agencies and the City of Baltimore sued the EPA last year for illegally exempting power plants from Clean Air Act regulations that set strict standards for hazardous air pollutants, including mercury.    » read more »

February 11, 2008 -- “Today the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia struck down Bush Administration regulations that exempted coal and oil fired power plants, including some of this country’s worst polluters, from their obligation to sharply decrease their mercury pollution. This ruling represents a significant victory for both the health of Maine people and our natural environment.    » read more »

February 8, 2008 - Vermont Attorney General William H. Sorrell announced today that the United States Appeals Court for the District of Columbia has struck down two rules enacted by the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) applying unlawfully lenient standards for mercury emissions from power plants. A coalition of 16 states, including Vermont, and various environmental groups had challenged the rules because the rules would have improperly allowed for higher mercury emissions and would have perpetuated “hot spots” of local mercury deposition.    » read more »

New Mexico along with 17 other States and Entities Sued EPA Over Power Plant Emissions Policy

February 8, 2008 -- (Santa Fe, NM) A federal Court of Appeals upheld a lawsuit filed by New Mexico and 17 other states and entities that alleged a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule was harmful to citizens and the environment because it would have exempted power plants from strict mercury emissions limits. New Jersey led the lawsuit.    » read more »

AG King: Big Win for New Mexico

(ALBUQUERQUE)---The New Mexico Attorney General’s Office and more than a dozen other states claimed a big victory today in their legal fight against a federal policy that exempts power plants from mercury emissions regulations. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. dissolved the Environmental Protection Agency’s so-called cap-and-trade rule. The Court agreed with the states that the EPA had no authority to exempt power plants.    » read more »