ELPC Commends New EPA Mercury Pollution Reduction Standards to Protect Children's Health and Our Environment

CHICAGO, April 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Environmental Law & Policy Center commends the Obama Administration for proposing new federal air pollution reduction standards today that would sharply reduce mercury and other toxic pollutants from industrial boilers and solid waste incinerators. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA), the proposed rules would reduce mercury pollution by more than 50 percent from about 200,000 industrial boilers, heaters and solid waste incinerators across the country.

"The US EPA is stepping up to protect children's health, the Great Lakes and our environment by reducing toxic mercury pollution from major sources," said Howard A. Learner, Executive Director of the Environmental Law & Policy Center. "Mercury is a neurotoxin that can pass through a pregnant woman's placenta and harm fetal brain development. Coal plants and these industrial smokestacks are the largest sources of mercury pollution.  Today's announcement leads the way to better protection for children's health and the environment."  

SOURCE Environmental Law & Policy Center

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