Obama Wins Big On Regulation Of Power Plant "Toxics" Emissions

EPA scores victory on power-plant emissions of another kind: air toxics. "A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld the Environmental Protection Agency's first-ever limits on air toxics, including emissions of mercury, arsenic and acid gases, preserving a far-reaching rule the White House had touted as central to President Obama's environmental agenda. In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit found that the rule regulating power plants 'was substantively and procedurally valid,' turning aside challenges brought by Republican-led states that had argued it was onerous and environmental groups that had contended it did not go far enough." Neela Banerjee in the Los Angeles Times.