The Latest On: Mercury
Tom Waldo, Attorney, Alaska Office, Earthjustice: “The mine, as proposed, would not comply with water quality standards for protection of salmon habitat, for temperature, and for mercury.”
Neil Gormley, Attorney, Washington, D.C., Earthjustice: “What matters is that the standards are now at risk. EPA has essentially invited the coal industry to go to court to take down the standards themselves.”
Neil Gormley, Attorney, Washington, D.C., Earthjustice: “[The emails show] that even OMB agreed with public health and environmental groups and EPA’s independent science advisers that EPA should have grappled with new information showing that the benefits of MATS are much greater than EPA estimated and the costs much lower.”
