Full Title: Time to Modernize Aging Power Plants and Environmental Laws
Author(s): Jason Grumet, Joe Kruger and Jennifer Macedonia
Publisher(s): EM Magazine
Publication Date: October 1, 2011
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Description (excerpt):
Under the U.S. Clean Air Act – passed in 1970 and amended in 1977 and 1990 with overwhelming bipartisan support – electric power companies have developed and deployed innovative pollution control technologies to reduce emissions that contribute to a variety of health and environmental concerns. There is strong evidence that the Act has delivered significant health and economic benefits.
Despite these successes, some of the Act’s mandates remain unfulfilled and the bevy of new regulations facing industry today is largely a result of delays and litigation on rulemakings dictated years ago under the Act. We don’t question the need to further reduce power plant emissions, but see lower cost opportunities to achieve those benefits through a revision of the Clean Air Act.