We Already Spent the Money, Keep Air Toxics Rule: AEP, Duke to EPA (Corrected)

American Electric Power Co., Duke Energy Corp., and others say they can’t recoup money they spent to meet requirements to cut mercury and other air toxics from their facilities and therefore want the EPA to retain the rule as is.

The Environmental Protection Agency may decide after a review to change or even revoke the current 2012 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards or MATS, which required most power plants to comply by April 2016. Though the power sector opposes the regulation, it has had no choice but to install expensive pollution controls or shutter aging ...