EPA vs Power Plants

     The EPA is out with it's long expected rules limiting the release of mercury and other toxins from coal-fired power plants.

     Coal-ash is only one of the problems resulting from burning all that coal to produce electricity. And some health experts say what goes out the smokestacks is much worse that what falls to the bottom. At right is the cleanup of the TVS coal Ash spill three years ago tomorrow.
     Alabama Power and other Southern Company subsidiaries have lots of coal-fired plants, six in Alabama, and had battled against the regulations for decades.