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  • From: ron thigpen <ron AT fuzzsonic.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] EPA v. NC (and more)
  • Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:49:27 -0400

Shea Tisdale wrote:

The state of North Carolina believes that most of the pollution being
measured in Charlotte, the Triad and Triangle, as well as around the
mountains of western NC is the result of emissions from power plants in
Tennessee and the mid-west.

I'd like to see some research that backs that up.

That may be so, but the following facilities keep showing up as top sources for a variety of pollutants including SO2 and mercury.

Belews Creek - Stokes Co. - Duke Energy
Marshall - Catawba Co. - Duke Energy
Roxboro -Person Co. - Progress Energy, Carolina Pwr. & Light

All would likely be big beneficiaries of the current administration's overhaul of the "new source review" rules. Fortunately, NC put some laws and agreements in place in recent years that will drive down emissions from these plants over time. Costs are spread out over many years to be borne mainly by the ratepayers. NC's beef with neighboring states is that they haven't come on board and put similar rules in place. Those states see the benefits of NC's lower emissions, but don't pony up to cover their own. And the feds sure haven't done anything but make the power plant situation worse in the last, oh, three and a half years.

<http://www.whitehouseforsale.org/documents/dirtiest_plants2.pdf>

--rt







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