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March 13, 2012

Fight Coal Pollution, But Not Like This

Cecil Roberts, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette


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Last December, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a final rule intended to reduce electric utility emissions of mercury and other air toxics. The EPA projected that less than 5,000 megawatts of older coal-fueled generating plants would be retired as a result of its Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule. . .

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