Great Lakes legal expert discusses challenge to EPA mercury rules

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Nick Schroeck, director of the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center. Credit http://law.wayne.edu/

Nick Schroeck, director of the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center.
Credit http://law.wayne.edu/

The environment has taken center stage in President Barack Obama’s second term. Under his direction, the Environmental Protection Agency has issued sweeping regulations aimed at curbing global warming. But should the EPA have to consider what it costs utilities to comply with those regulations? That’s the question being asked in a case before the Supreme Court right now.

Michigan and 22 other states filed a lawsuit against the EPA, saying the agency failed to consider the costs to utilities when it announced new limits on mercury emissions from power plants in 2012.

Current State speaks with Nick Schroeck, a professor of Environmental Law at Wayne State University and director of the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center.

This segment was produced by WKAR’s Current State and is reproduced with permission.

One thought on “Great Lakes legal expert discusses challenge to EPA mercury rules

  1. I don’t know why Attorney General Bill Schuette is wasting Michigan taxpayer funds on this case. Michigan passed its own rule requiring power plants to reduce mercury emissions by 90% from old coal-fired power plants before the EPA rule. We did this because this power plants are the largest source of mercury into our environment. Mercury emission have lead to fish consumption advisories on all of Michigan’s inland lakes. If the federal rule is struck down, our utilities will still have to reduce mercury emissions under the Michigan rule.

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