Stories tagged "mercury"
March 18, 2019
Last December the Environmental Protection Agency proposed a rule to weaken part of the Obama-era Mercury & Air Toxics Standards (MATS), regulation that helps limit the amounts of mercury and other toxic pollutants that can be emitted by power plants. While the...
February 12, 2019
The state of Louisiana’s Department of Environmental Quality starting in December first published an interactive map that shows where it is unsafe to swim and where fishers should not eat their catches, according to an Associated Press story in nola.com. The...