Legal Analysis and Background on the EPA's Proposed Rules for Regulating Mercury Emissions from Electric Utilities

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Air--Pollution.

Air.

Electric utilities.

Environmental law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contained In:

ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] [publisher not identified] 2004

Summary:

Examines EPA proposed rules for regulating mercury emissions from electric utilities. Discusses rulemaking background and regulation of electric utilities under the Clean Air Act (CAA) and provides a legal analysis of EPA authority to regulate electric utilities under the CAA, EPA discretion to revise previous regulatory findings and institute a "cap-and-trade program," and implications of a 1998 settlement agreement for EPA efforts to regulate electric utilities

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Microfiche version Library of Congress Congressional Research Service Legal Analysis and Background on the EPA's Proposed Rules for Regulating Mercury Emissions from Electric Utilities

Publisher Number:

CRS-2004-AML-0165

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