BOSTON -- Federal Magistrate Judge Robert Collings has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to release key documents relating to the regulation of mercury emissions from power plants, Attorney General Tom Reilly announced today. Power plants are the largest producers of mercury, which poses serious neurological risks, especially to children and pregnant women.
Last year AG Reilly joined with several other state AGs in challenging a new EPA mercury emissions trading program for power plants, arguing that it is inadequate and inconsistent with the Clean Air Act. (The case is pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit). In March of 2005, AG Reilly filed a separate suit against the EPA in Massachusetts federal district court, seeking the release of information about potentially more effective regulatory alternatives to the agency’s proposal that the agency refused to release.
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