Posted on 11/18/2012 7:47:15 PM PST by lowbridge
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency met a deadline Thursday on a plan to control emissions from three Arizona power plants that it contends have impaired visibility at places like the Grand Canyon.
The Associated Press reports that the EPA had proposed approving Arizona's air-quality plan to reduce sulfur dioxide and soot at the Apache coal-fired plant in Cochise, along with the Cholla and Coronado plants. But when it came to nitrogen oxide emissions, the EPA suggested the state's plan didn't go far enough and came up with one of its own.
The conflict highlights the tension between the EPA and businesses after an election season in which the notion of heavy-handed environmental regulations became a popular argument for Republican candidates. Arizona and the administration of Republican Gov. Jan Brewer contend the EPA's proposals would cost hundreds of millionsof dollars, causing utility rates to sharply increase for residents.
Instead of low nitrogen-oxide burners, the EPA hinted it might require that some of plants' older units be equipped with selective catalytic reduction technology to keep 17,000 tons nitrogen oxide from being released into the air and causing visibility issues at 18 national parks and wilderness areas.
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Ping.
Power plants will soon need to be protected by armed guards with machine guns.
The feds going after Arizona...who’d have thought. Paging EH...
Wonder if this is part of the revenge Jarrett said was coming after Obama was elected.
I think the head of the EPA has been sniffing nitrogen oxide
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It may as well be Arizona.
It may as well be now.
When the power plant owners shrug and pull a Hostess, the rates will really go down!
I hope the governor tells them to pound sand. The EPA needs to be reined in.
Expensive energy = prosperity for the big-government/big-corporate criminal complex.
Is the science being claimed, even valid? How do they know the plants are making the haze?
This is BS. An engineer who works with the plant up in Page said the source of coal used there is the cleanest burning in the country.
Like I said is the science even any better than that of globull warming? Supposing they DID put all that expensive junk on their smoke stacks, would it stop any of the haze they’re complaining about?
A fourth plant is also on the list - on Navahoe land.
1.1 billion to ‘fix’ (reduce by 40%)the emissions. Lease for the land the plant sits on runs out in 2019. Owners are talking of pulling the plug - sux to live in Arizona right now.
the haze is blowing in from China
The EPA seems to be an economic terrorist organization.
no kidding? all the way to Arizona? without even stopping in California first?
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