US COAL PLANT POLLUTION
December 1st, 2003
BY PHILIP FINE
US coal-burning power plants will need to make some steep emission cuts, assuming an anti-pollution plan being laid out by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) passes. The EPA's proposal, which still requires public comment, would give coal-burning power plants until 2015 to reduce sulphur dioxide emissions by 70 per cent and nitrous oxide by 40 per cent, while requiring mercury emissions to be cut by 70 per cent by 2018. While not estimating how much it will cost to implement the measures, the National Mining Association says the price ...
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