Senators Try to Kill EPA Effort to Reduce Mercury and Toxic Air Pollution

Wednesday, 20 June 2012 00:00  
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report 

The Senate is expected to vote Wednesday on a Republican proposal to stop the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from implementing new rules that would reduce the amount of dangerous pollutants such as mercury, lead and arsenic emitted from coal burning power plants and prevent more than 100,000 heart and asthma attacks each year.

Lawmakers backing the proposal, led by Sen. James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), claim the rules are part of the Obama administration's job killing "war on coal."