EPA's mercury proposal ignores science, actual compliance costs, critics say

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The US Environmental Protection Agency's bid to rescind the legalbasis for an Obama-era rule targeting mercury emissions from coalandoil-fired power plants ignores new science and lower-thanpreviously-estimated compliance costs, critics argued Monday.The comments were delivered at the only public hearing for theEPA's December 2018 proposal to revoke the legal justification for theMercury and Air Toxics Standards, or MATS, rule.