On December 21, 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled its Final Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) for Power Plants in what has been called one of the most important anti-pollution measures in recent memory by environmental groups and criticized by others who predict a strain on the nation’s power grid and lost jobs. Under the new rules, EPA imposes strict new limits on the amount of mercury, acid gasses and other pollutants emitted by coal and oil-fired power plants. The new standards will impose numerical emission limits for all existing and future coal plants and propose a… Read more