Reducing mercury emissions

The
The Clean Air Mercury Rule will require reductions at the
beginning in 2010, with a final cap set at 15 tons beginning in 2018. The EPA says that by making mercury emissions a tradable commodity, the cap-and trade system provides a strong motivation for some utilities to make early emission reductions and for continuous improvements in control technologies.
But not everyone is in agreement with the idea that individual power plants could trade emissions credits, an idea that means that some US states would achieve reductions in mercury pollution while others would actually experience an increase.
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