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EPA’s Final Rule: National Emission Standards for Coal Generating Units
Part II Environmental Protection Agency 40 CFR Parts 60 and 63 National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants From Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units and Standards of Performance for Fossil-Fuel-Fired Electric Utility, Industrial-Commercial-Institutional, and Small Industrial-Commercial-Institutional Steam Generating Units; Final Rule Coal- and oil-fired electric utility steam generating units = EGUs PAGE […]
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Nevada site added to coal ash contamination report
A power plant in Nevada has been added to a list of places where groundwater or soil is contaminated by coal ash — a by-product of generating electricity. A new report from the Environmental Integrity Project says the North Valmy Generating Station between Winnemucca and Battle Mountain is one of nearly 150 sites of contamination. […]
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Montana: DEQ meets here about Highwood air permit
A modified air quality permit for a coal-fired power plant under construction eight miles east of Great Falls is the subject of a public meeting today in Great Falls. The meeting was scheduled here because of intense public interest in the project, said Charles Homer of the state Department of Environmental Quality’s Air Resources Bureau. […]
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Water supplies to 28,000 Chinese suspended
BEIJING – Toxic wastewater was flushed untreated into a river in southern China, prompting the government to cut water supplies to 28,000 people for at least four days, a local official and a Chinese newspaper said Monday. The official China Daily said that a power plant on the upper reaches of the Yuexi River in […]
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Shut Nanticoke and other coal-fired generators, group urges
The coal-burning Nanticoke power station is Canada’s largest industrial source of tiny toxic air-pollution particles. Jack Gibbons, chair of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance, says newly available 2002 numbers “just emphasize how serious the air pollution from Nanticoke is.” The data reported by Ontario Power Generation (OPG) to Environment Canada’s National Pollutant Release Inventory show […]
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Canadian polluters increased chemical releases by 20% from 1995 to 2001
TORONTO, June 19 /CNW/ – Pollution of Canada’s air, water and land is on an upward trend that has seen it increase by more than 20% since 1995, according to an updated environmental website launched today. Total releases of chemicals of concern increased by more than 36 million kilograms (kg) from 177,009,091 kg in 1995 […]
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In Virginia, slowdown in cutting toxic waste from factories
RICHMOND, Va — A 14-year-old federal program that publicizes the levels of toxic chemicals released by factories has helped cut discharges of the potentially dangerous chemicals in Virginia – until now. A new state report shows that the toxic releases into air, water and land dropped by less than 1 percent from 1999 to 2000. […]
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EPA questions state permit for Peabody Energy
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – The state issued a draft permit for a Peabody Energy power plant in Muhlenberg County without considering the plant’s full effect, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says. Peabody’s proposed Thoroughbred plant would be a 1,500-megawatt generator powered by coal from the company’s local mines. In written comments, EPA officials noted that […]
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Ohio Leads in Pollution by Utilities
Ohio’s electric utilities emit more toxic pollution than any others in the nation, according to figures released yesterday by the Environmental Protection Agency. The news immediately sparked debate over how harmful the emissions are. But the EPA sidestepped the issue, saying it was merely providing information so local communities and the state could decide what […]
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Coal Wastes and Fluoride
These two messages in from Bob Carton and the very high levels of fluoride that can leach out of coal wastes. The information comes from sources inside the US EPA. ——————————————- Folks, This is another overlooked or covered-up area of fluoride exposure. Fluoride was found as high as 812 mg/l ( 203 times the standard […]
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