New Regs on Coal and Mercury

The EPA announced new regulations intended to force coal-fired power plants to modernize or else. Regulating and limiting the mercury fallout from these plants is good news for people and fish - especially those who live in the New England. Warnings about eating fish abound in places like Maine. But these warnings are the result of pollution (mercury and acid deposition) from industry not in Maine, but in places like Ohio. I took the photo on West Virginia on a stream that is being "limed" to help reduce the impacts of acid deposition from coal-fired power plants.

EPA and Mercury