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The "Air Pollution Management" Newsletter

June 2008
No. 362

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NEW DECISION MAKING TOOLS

UNIVERSAL APPLICATION CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

• Applying the Universal Decision Tree Classification to All your APC Products

• The Location of the APC Decision Trees in the Global Orchard

IMPORTANT EVENT ODDS

• Mercury Control

• Specific Event Analysis

• Global Warming Catastrophe

• Natural Gas Prices

• Carbon Tax is Exorbitant

• U.S. is the Only Wealthy FGD Country without FGD on All Coal-fired Units

• Anti-Environment Executive and Legislative Branches

• Renewable Energy Costs Fall to Less than 200 Percent of Coal

• Nuclear Impact is Major

• Gasification is Major

• Additional Negative Events Which Could Impact New Coal-fired Capacity

• Positive Events for Retrofit

• Carper Mercury Rule with Proposal Date of October 2008

• PM_2.5 NAAQS Rule

• MACT for Toxics

• Regional Haze Rule

• Increase Capacity

• NSR Litigation

• CO₂ Ready

• Most States Pass 90 Percent MACT Rules if There is No National Rule on Mercury

• Mercury is Linked to Autism or Major New Health Problem

• Positive Events for New Coal-fired Plants

• Co-firing Ethanol, Hydrochloric Acid

• Coal is Less than Half the Cost of Alternatives

• Carbon Capture Economics

• Events Shaping Mercury Technology Selection

• Activated Carbon Used Prior to Scrubber Installation

• Activated Carbon Used with Wet Scrubber

• Activated Carbon Used with Dry Scrubber

• Mercury Removed Down Stream of Scrubber

INDUSTRY NEWS

• Biorem Revenues Up 80 Percent in First Quarter