Hearing on “Undermining Mercury Protections: EPA Endangers Human Health and the Environment”
The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee held a hearing on Tuesday, May 21, at 10 am in 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing will examine the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recent proposal that says limiting mercury and other air toxics from coal and oil-fired power plants is not “appropriate and necessary” under the Clean Air Act. The hearing is entitled, “Undermining Mercury Protections: EPA Endangers Human Health and the Environment.”
Key Documents
Memorandum from Chairman Pallone to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Opening Statement of Subcommittee Chair DeGette as prepared for delivery
Livestream
Witnesses
Philip Landrigan, M.D., M.Sc.
Director, Global Public Health Program and Global Pollution Observatory
Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society
Boston College
Michael Livermore
Associate Professor of Law
University of Virginia
Janet McCabe
Former Acting Assistant Administrator
Office of Air and Radiation
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Noelle Eckley Selin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Director, MIT Technology and Policy Program
Heather McTeer Toney
National Field Director
Moms Clean Air Force
Adam R.F. Gustafson
Partner
Boyden Gray & Associates PLLC