Advocates Weigh Legal Challenge After EPA Denies Mercury Data Petition

摘要

Environmentalists are weighing a possible legal challenge among their options for responding to EPA's rejection of a petition from states and environmentalists that urged the agency to collect information on products containing mercury, such as electric switches, as fewer states are gathering the data. David Lennett, a senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), calls EPA's response "disappointing and it sort of misses the point. EPA lists all these wonderful authorities [to gather data on mercury] but if EPA has all these wonderful authorities, why doesn't it have the information?"