Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Here’s How to Clean Up Dirty, Old Power Plants

Mother Jones: The Natural Resources Defense Council thinks it has the perfect solution to regulating planet-warming emissions from existing power plants. But can the group sell the Obama administration Environmental Protection Agency on it? NRDC's plan, released on Tuesday, outlines a framework for using the Clean Air Act (Section 111d, to be exact) to set new regulations on the country's 1,500 existing coal plants. Rather than a straightforward limit on emissions--which would likely require major retrofits...

URL: http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/12/playbook-new-rules-old-power-plants

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