Collins Seeks To Curb Business Emissions Amid New Study

Collins seeks mercury law

By Lindsay Tice , Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins is calling for new legislation to track mercury pollution and to slash emissions from the nation's power plants. She made the announcement shortly after two new studies determined the upper Androscoggin and Kennebec rivers were "hot spots" for mercury.

"I have long-argued that EPA used faulty science in order to justify an insufficient mercury rule, and these studies prove it," Collins said in a statement Tuesday.

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