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Places: Toxic Air, Neglected Communities Mon December 12, 2011
EPA To Unveil New Rules For Power Plants More than 20 years ago,
Congress ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate
toxic air pollution. It's done that for most industries, but not
the biggest polluters — coal and oil-burning power plants. The
EPA now plans to change that later this week, by setting new
rules to limit mercury and other harmful pollution from power
plants. When Congress first told the EPA to regulate toxic air
pollution in 1990, pediatrician Lynn Goldman was investigating
the impact of mercury from mining operations on Native American
families living near a contaminated lake. "We had children that
had levels that were many times higher than levels that are
considered to be safe," Goldman says. Their families caught and
ate a lot of local fish, and Goldman says she had to advise them
to stop. The fish had too much mercury. From The Plant To Plate
Goldman, now