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In Coming Utility MACT, EPA Has Clean Air Act Authority to Make Big Strides in Protecting Americans from Mercury Pollution
Published on 2011-03-11 14:26:27
By Wednesday of next week, EPA is due to publish its long-anticipated rule controlling mercury emissions from coal-fired utilities. This is how we ought to judge the rule: does it follow the mandate of the Clean Air Act (CAA)? For too long, utilities have managed by various means to fend off regulation required by the CAA. Assuming EPA’s [...]
Environmental Regulation, Jobs, and Human Health: Industry Estimates on Boiler Rule Flunk Economics 101
Published on 2010-11-03 12:17:22
Economics professors at two major universities just issued their reviews of industry-funded assessments of the costs of EPA’s proposed boiler rule (via NRDC). The professors’ conclusions: “the methodology is fundamentally flawed;” “the resulting estimates of job losses are completely invalid;” “the results reported are useless;” “if I were grading this, I would give it an F.” These [...]
Boiler MACT Rule Would Have Enormous Health Benefits from Air Pollutant Reductions — And That’s Not Even Accounting for the Reduced Mercury Emissions
Published on 2010-10-12 20:19:16
EPA’s proposal to curb emissions from the second largest source of mercury in the United States – industrial boilers and process heaters – has come under fire in recent weeks. Those industries that would be subject to the “boiler rule” have objected to its costs, and some senators have embraced their claims (see also Lisa Jackson’s [...]
