“the ruling would require the plant to install a costly new system for handling and storing dry ash.”
Upstate NY sands the winter roads with fly ash.
We’ll probably find out down the road that MORE of that federal stimulus funding actually goes to support this coal phase out. Keep electric rates from rising in the present by hiding the change over costs and increases. Then when the utility continues the following year, yank the funding and the consumers be screwed.
Soon, America will be freezing in the dark.
Will this mean the city having to turn to other sources for electricity or can they produce enough with the one boiler? will the EPA be satisfied when they have everybody bankrupt or will they still want more?
When I was a kid those stacks belched black smoke.
Since the baghouse installation you can barely see the exhaust most days.
The EPA is out of control.