- WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is pressing ahead with the first-ever limits on heat-trapping pollution from new power plants. Administration officials told The Associated Press that the long-delayed proposal will be released Tuesday. (Huffington Post)
- EPA has made the scientific determination that air pollution threatens the environment and public health. For every dollar spent to reduce pollution from power plants, Americans will receive up to $9 in health benefits. (MLive.com)
- The EPA estimates it will cost the energy industry about $11 billion a year to meet the regulations, though Jackson noted that many companies had already voluntarily upgraded their plants. An estimated 44% of power plants lack advanced pollution control equipment. (MedicineNet.com)
- That's because the EPA has deftly crafted the rollout to score political they will also hold his feet to the fire to do the tougher work of clamping down on existing power plant pollution if he is reelected. (NationalJournal.com)
- FLAGSTAFF — Environmentalists are accusing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of dragging its feet on pollution controls for two coal-fired power plants on the Navajo Nation that serve utilities including Tucson Electric Power Co. (Arizona Daily Star)
- Dry sorbent injection (DSI) is a pollution control technology The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the MATS rule in December 2011. The MATS rule requires that all U.S. (PennEnergy)
- Mandated under the Clean Air Act, EPA's limits on the toxic pollution from industrial power plants will cut the levels of mercury in our waters and the levels of particulate pollution and acid gases in our air. (Bangor Daily News)
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Epa power plants pollution
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