Court says EPA can't withhold documents on mercury emissions plan

[Eugene]

(Associated Press)

Court says EPA can't withhold documents on mercury emissions plan

BOSTON A federal magistrate says the U-S Environmental Protection Agency can't withhold
information from Massachusetts about potentially more effective alternatives to reducing
toxic mercury from power plants.

Attorney General Tom Reilly filed a lawsuit last year claiming the agency was refusing
to release information about alternatives to their plan.

The magistrate found that documents which Reilly's office argues would show alternatives
to the E-P-A's proposal were not exempt from the federal Freedom of Information Act.

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While the E-P-A says their plan will reduce emissions by 70 percent by 2018, Reilly says
there are ways to create even more stringent standards.

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Full article: http://www.eyewitnessnewstv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4768659&nav=F2DO

Press release from Mass. Attorney General's office:
FEDERAL COURT ORDERS BUSH ADMINISTRATION TO TURN OVER KEY DOCUMENTS ON MERCURY

[babylonsister]

1. You post great topics, Eugene.

Would you consider foisting them on General Discussion? It's not all politics, and more people would see them.

That also applies to this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=116&topic_id=12749&mesg_id=12749