Minnesota Legislation Will Curb Mercury Pollution from Coal Plants
The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/minnesota-legislation-will-curb-mercury-pollution-coal-plants/Under a compromise agreement, legislation was passed into law in May 2006 that requires Minnesota’s largest coal-fired power plants to cut mercury emissions by 90 percent by 2015.
Utilities were brought on board by allowing immediate recovery from ratepayers the cost of installing the necessary pollution control equipment.

