... role in characterizing air toxic emissions from conventional and advanced power systems and is supporting research on control technology for mercury, currently viewed as the most severe air toxic problem facing coal-fired power plants. DOE, EPA, and EPRI collaborated on the most extensive study of ... air pollution from domestic utilities, enabling EPA to focus its regulatory efforts on the one believed to be of most concern—mercury. Realized economic benefits cannot be attributed to cost savings associated with focusing EPA on just one pollutant, mercury, at this time since ...
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems