For the third time, evidence has turned up revealing yet another way that industry was allowed to write the rules on mercury -- and EPA put their ideas in word for word: The passages state that the Environmental Protection Agency is not required to regulate other hazardous toxins emitted by power plants, such as lead and arsenic. Several attorneys general, as well as some environmental groups, have argued that the Clean Air Act compels the EPA to regulate these emissions as well as mercury. The revelations concerning language written by Latham & Watkins could broaden an ongoing probe by the EPA's inspector general into whether the industry had an undue influence on the agency's proposed mercury rule, legislative critics of the proposed rule said. --from Juliet Eilperin, "EPA Wording Found to Mirror Industry's: Influence on Mercury Proposal Probed," Washington Post, Sep. 22, 2004, at A29.