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Challenge to the EPA’s stance against mercury in coal power station emissions

International Mining | August 8, 2012 | 5:04 am Europe

America’s largest business lobby group, The US Chamber of Commerce, has petitioned a federal appeals court to invalidate environmental regulations it claims will lead to sweeping electricity blackouts by forcing coal-fired power plants to close. The…