The Charleston Gazette
While many states have decided upon tougher mercury emission legislation, WV follows, and defends, the Federal program promoted by the Bush administration.
At least 22 other states have abandoned the Bush plan, instead submitting tougher pollution reduction rules to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Kenna Amos, a state Department of Environmental Protection engineer, said those other plans aren’t likely to work — at least not yet, because mercury-control technologies are not perfected.
“There are promising technologies, some of them are even being installed hither and yon,” Amos said. “But we do not believe that commercially available technologies exist.”
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