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...“This action, as well as my support for mercury emission control during the last legislative session, and legal efforts at the federal level, will help limit children's exposure to this damaging pollutant.”“New Mexico _ along with other states _ insisted that the federal EPA's trading program allows mercury emissions from power plants that are harmful to human health and the environment,” said New Mexico Environment Department Secretary Ron Curry.

States have the option to opt out of the federal trading program.

States opposed to the program asserted it would result in hot spots of mercury contamination around many power plants, which would not be required to install additional pollution controls.

Instead of following that program, New Mexico set caps on the amount of mercury power plants can emit.

Those caps lower mercury amounts over time, the governor's spokesman said.Power plants in New Mexico emit about 14,000 ounces of mercury per year now.

Because of the caps put in place by the EIB, from 2010 to 2017, that amount must be reduced to 9,568 ounces of mercury per year.

From 2018 on, plants in New Mexico must only emit 3,776 ounces of mercury per ye...

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