Will the Supreme Court block Obama's big crackdown on mercury pollution?
Posted on AllSides March 25th, 2015
From The Left
The Supreme Court is currently debating the fate of one of the Obama administration's most sweeping environmental policies — a big crackdown on mercury pollution from coal plants. And, by many accounts, this might be a close call. The Court could potentially strike the rule down.
The issue at hand is arcane but important: it's about whether the Environmental Protection Agency properly considered costs in crafting its 2012 mercury regulations, which will force coal-fired power plants to spend $9.6 billion per year cleaning up toxic mercury emissions. Combined with other...
