For years the Bush Administration attempted to shield power plants from clean up requirements, but now the EPA has agreed put new rules in place by 2011 that will protect Americans from the mercury, lead, soot and other harmful toxins emitted by coal and oil power plants.

For far too long the largest polluters, especially coal plants, have been let off the hook. The National Academy of Sciences just released a report that shows emissions from coal fired power plants are responsible for $62 billion in "hidden" costs, primarily through health damages. And that's without even taking into account the impact on climate change, ecosystems, or rising food prices.1

It is certainly not asking too much to require that these polluters install adequate controls to protect communities from the harmful toxins they emit. The EPA is moving systematically to end the giant regulatory loopholes that the coal industry has enjoyed for decades, loopholes that allow billions of tons of pollution into our air every year.

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