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“EPA Could Give Power Companies Options to Delay Pollution Rule”

Power com­pa­nies say the new air pol­lu­tion rules pro­posed by the EPA would force them to shut down some of their plants. A poten­tial fix would be to allow some to delay compliance.


The Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency would let power plants apply for more time to com­ply with new pol­lu­tion stan­dards under a rule sent to the White House for review, accord­ing to peo­ple famil­iar with the process. The EPA stopped short of grant­ing an across-the-board delay in imple­ment­ing the rules, as sought by com­pa­nies such as Amer­i­can Elec­tric Power Co.

Read more at: fuelfix.com

Comments

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_T5AQOTQAX3TMF7AVYYRUW3THMY Julieann Woz­niak

    So what options do we get? We’re liv­ing with this pol­lu­tion on a daily basis, and it is slowly killing us. Is the power gen­er­a­tion indus­try will­ing to foot the bill for our increased health care costs? I should live so long. And EPA should not give an inch. We’ve been wait­ing 40 years for the promised clean air, and that’s long enough.

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