AP: Connecticut among 16 states challenging EPA mercury rules

http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2006/06/17/connecticut_among_16_states_challenging_epa_mercury_rules/

MADISON, Wis. --Wisconsin and 15 other states, including Connecticut, plan to file a petition in federal court challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's new mercury pollution rules.

The states sent the petition to federal court in Washington, D.C. via overnight mail Friday, said Wisconsin Department of Justice spokesman Mike Bauer. The petition should be filed by Monday, he said.

The petition asks a federal judge to reactivate a lawsuit New Jersey Attorney General Peter C. Harvey filed last year on behalf of 11 states challenging a rule known as "cap-and-trade." That rule allows power plants to buy emissions reduction credits from plants whose emissions fall below target levels, rather than installing their own mercury emissions controls. It's scheduled to go into effect in 2010.

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Wisconsin Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager, a Democrat, said in a statement that the cap-and-trade system will endanger children with mercury "hot spots" near power plants that pollute but use credits to do it legally.

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Other states included on the petition are: California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont.

Not the kind of states people live in just because they end up there?

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