From the Idaho Mountain Express
The House Environment, Energy and Technology Committee voted Wednesday to recommend approval of a rule that would keep Idaho out of the federal mercury cap and trade program.
Idaho has a zero cap for mercury emissions. If that cap stays in place, and if Idaho doesn't join the pollution-credit trading system, coal-fired power plants will not be able to operate here because such plants can't operate with zero mercury emissions.
The issue moves to the full House for their consideration, then to the Senate.
To explain this a little more. Idaho has no coal fired plants burning today and thus they have a zero mercury emission limit in the Federal CAMR. If they stay out of the cap and trade program they will not be able to build any coal burning power plants becasue there is no way to offset the mercury emissions. If they were to opt into the cap and trade program they could buy credits to offset any plant emissions that would be built.
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