Internal Data Search by Location

Data Search on:

Arizona Opposes EPA's Visibility Plan to Install New Expensive Pollution Control Equipment

State officials and utilities are trying to kill a plan by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to force owners of three coal-fired power plants to install expensive pollution control equipment to improve visibility. State officials argue that the federal proposal to reduce NOx will impose hundreds of millions of dollars of unnecessary costs on utilities — and, by extension, their customers. The proposed reduction is also believed to have no affect on public health, instead it is based on EPA’s claim that the pollutants are impairing visibility in natural parks. This controversy pits economics against visibility. The state believes that putting such a restriction on the power plants is part of the current administrations plan to make fossil fuel power not cost effective, and thus not worth while to the customers.

Revision Date:  7/30/2012

Tags:  221112 - Fossil Fuel 化石燃料, Catalytic Oxidizer, Regulation, NOx, USA

EUEC 2007-10 interviews and stand pictures

 

Revision Date:  11/30/2010

Tags:  221112 - Fossil Fuel 化石燃料, Stack Gas, Renewable Energy, Air Quality, Exhibition, USA