| UtiliPoint - June 24 - There's no argument that mercury is
a noxious pollutant yet there is widespread disagreement over how or
whether to control it. Now the attention is on potential “hot
spots,” whereby individual power plants could end up not cutting
mercury-related emissions under a free market approach espoused by the
Bush administration and others. Not so says a recently released report by
the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), noting that many of these
facilities burn bituminous coal whose mercury-related emissions are easier
to control than other coal types. |