Mercury returns to the air

Twenty-one states and the District of Columbia sued the EPA over its repeal of mercury and air toxics standards for coal-fired power plants. The February rollback relieves all facilities of stricter particulate matter limits and mercury standards. The coalition argues the EPA failed to provide reasoned basis and ignored developments in control technology. *The gap: this story did not trend. It did not move markets. Mercury is invisible, its damage neurological and multigenerational, its victims ...