The Environmental Protection Agency is developing new rules to regulate pollution from power plants as a challenge to its authority to do so is pending in the Supreme Court, Administrator Michael Regan said.
The new regulations will target mercury and other toxic pollutants in air and water sources, with the expressed goal of protecting the poor and minorities who live near plants, he said.
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