Poster
06-29-2004, 02:09 PM
After receiving a record 500,000 comments from the public, the EPA has ended its 6 month public hearing on limiting mercury pollution. The major debate is centered on how much mercury pollution can be reduced given current technology. Bush plans to reduce the rate by 29% by 2010 and 70% by 2018, while environmentalists want to reduce the rate by 90% by 2009. The EPA's plan will install a cap on pollution with licensed permits being distributed to companies who can buy and sell pollution credits from each other depending on how much the company pollutes. Utility companies believe the plan is premature given that the testing of new technology limiting mercury pollution has been inadequate.
“Dan Riedinger, spokesman for the Edison Electric Institute, whose member firms generate 70 percent of the nation's electricity, said his group will warn that some of the technology underpinning the proposed reductions has yet to be tested. ‘When we install it, it has to work,’ he said.”
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“Dan Riedinger, spokesman for the Edison Electric Institute, whose member firms generate 70 percent of the nation's electricity, said his group will warn that some of the technology underpinning the proposed reductions has yet to be tested. ‘When we install it, it has to work,’ he said.”
For more information see: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5324040/