is still reviewing the terms of the agreement, and once the agency completes its review and files it with the Environmental Appeals Board, the agreement will be announced.

EPA believes its cap-and-trade rule is the best approach to protect public health by reducing mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants while maintaining fuel diversity and energy security.

Clear Skies delivers dramatic health benefits across the nation without raising energy costs and does it with certainty and simplicity, instead of regulation and litigation. Because of our commitment to see this become a reality, EPA went above and beyond to provide the most comprehensive legislative analysis of air ever prepared by the agency, so it does a real disservice to this discussion to have a report that largely ignores and misinterprets our analysis.

Steve Johnson is a 25-year career scientist at the EPA, ... He is committed to doing the sampling and the testing and the cleanup and doing whatever needs to be done.

EPA believes its cap-and-trade rule is the best approach to protect public health by reducing mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants while maintaining fuel diversity and energy security,

Even one child impacted by lead is one child too many, which is why we are working on the rule to ensure that children will not be exposed to unsafe levels of lead when their homes are being renovated,