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Mercury scrubbers at power plant lower other pollution too
2015-07-15 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Air pollution controls installed at an Oregon coal-fired power plant to curb mercury emissions are unexpectedly reducing another class of harmful emissions as well, an Oregon State University study has found. Portland General Electric added emission control systems at its generating plant in Boardman, Oregon, in 2011 to capture and remove mercury from the exhaust. Before-and-after measurements by a team of OSU scientists found that concentrations of two major groups of air pollutants went down...
Calgon Carbon Responds To Supreme Court's Decision To Overturn MATS (Mercury And Air Toxics Standards) Rule For Power Plants
2015-07-06 03:05:10| pollutiononline Home Page
Calgon Carbon Corporation responds to today’s ruling by the United States Supreme Court, which overturned the U.S. EPA’s MATS rule
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EPA Prods Dentists to Fill Mercury Disposal Gap
2015-07-06 00:04:45| Waste Age
Its estimated that each of this countrys 140,000 dental practices110,000 private and 30,000 publichandle a pound or two of mercury per year. And at least 8,800 of those pounds arent trapped or diverted in any fashion. read more
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Mercury Ruling Not Stopping EPA From Moving Foward with Climate Rules
2015-07-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: The Supreme Courts decision against a key Obama administration air pollution rule is not stopping regulators from moving forward on the governments most ambitious climate change rule. Janet McCabe, head of the air pollution office at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), characterized the Monday ruling in Michigan v. EPA as very narrow, and said it does not affect any other air or climate regulations. The decision does not affect the Clean Power Plan, which EPA will be finalizing...
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Justices topple EPA mercury regs in ruling seen as limited
2015-06-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenwire: The Supreme Court ruled today that the Obama administration unlawfully failed to consider compliance costs before it issued its landmark power plant emission limits for mercury and other hazardous pollutants. More than 20 Republican-led states and various industry groups challenged U.S. EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, or MATS. The rules were finalized in December 2011 and are already in effect, requiring coal-burning power plants to reduce emissions of hazardous substances like mercury,...
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