EPA Requires Big Coal to Cut Poison in Your Air

"Those proposals could require plants to:
- Reduce emissions of mercury and other toxic chemicals, gases that cause ozone pollution, and greenhouse gases.
- Dispose of coal ash under EPA guidelines for hazardous waste...."


from:
http://www.wbir.com/news/article/182176/2/New-rules-could-mean-big-changes-for-coal-plants

"The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service said industry studies warning of a train wreck overstated some of the costs and didn't address the benefits. The biggest impacts will be on plants more than 40 years old that never installed state-of-the art pollution controls. The Congressional Research Service said that many of those plants are inefficient and are already being replaced by more efficient plants fired partly by natural gas."