Colorado - Rocky Mountain News
The debate rages today in Colorado as to how to comply with the Clean Air Mercury Rules, whether to follow the federal program that allows trading mercury credits, or devise a state plan with stricter guidelines.
Who pollutes how much "is not a decision that should be made by individual businesses based on financial interests," she said. "It's a public health decision."
But attorney Jim Sanderson, representing a coalition of utilities in the state, contends that the type of mercury produced by burning Colorado- and Wyoming-produced coal tends to linger in the atmosphere for months and has more of a global impact than a local one, therefore contributing little to the state's mercury-tainted lakes with fish advisories.
These types of comments are being made all over the nation now as a Friday Nov 17th deadline approaches for states to decide to follow the US-EPA CAMR or join a growing number of states to write their own rules. Read the rest of the article here.
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