WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to roll back mercury emission standards applied to power plants by significantly devaluing the health benefits that justified the ...

In the first study to examine mercury across a spectrum of fish in the six-state ... has moved to relax an Obama era mercury emission regulation at such plants, citing its cost.

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration on Monday proposed a market-based system of pollution controls designed to reduce mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants by nearly 70% over the next ...

Mark Sandheinrich (a co-author on paper, and in stern of canoe) and Sean Bailey from the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, fish shocking in Shoepack Lake to collect year-old yellow perch.

A federal appeals court struck down a Bush administration policy which would have allowed some power plants to exceed legal emission levels of mercury, ruling Friday that the government failed to ...

The center injected particles of activated carbon into the emission stream. The mercury attached to the carbon, which was then captured in a series of filters. The tests concluded that the ...

EPA’s new update to the rule eliminates that loophole and will require them to meet the much tighter mercury emission limit already in place for other coal-burning power facilities. Last year ...

The Trump administration has exempted 47 power companies from regulations to curb mercury and air toxics for 66 coal-fired power plants for two years, according to a list of facilities published ...