Utility deregulation, air deposition may make NOx the acid rain of the 1990s

Article Abstract:

The issuance of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Order 888 has fueled a controversy between East Coast and midwestern electric utility companies. At the heart of the issue is a provision in the order which gives access to Midwestern power plants to use electricity generators. Eastern states and utilities claim that increased activity in Midwestern utilities will increase emissions of nitrogen oxides, which are ozone precursors, and bring these emissions to the east, making compliance with ozone standards virtually impossible in the east.

Electric Utilities, Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution, Regulation and Administration of Communications, Electric, Gas, and Other Utilities, Electric services, Electric Utilities Regulation, Nitrogen Oxide Pollutants, Environmental aspects, Deregulation, Utility regulations, Ozone, Gaseous pollutants, Nitrogen oxides, Nitrogen oxide

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Are regulators relying on inaccurate industrial air emission inventories?

Article Abstract:

A report published in the 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences' gives credence to the long-held suspicion that estimated industrial air emission figures for factories are incomplete and even inaccurate. Emission inventories are where most regulations and standards for air pollution control are based. Regulators, owing to the laborious and costly method of gathering air quality data from outdoor monitors, have become lax in their data-gathering efforts and just required factories to submit estimates of expected emissions.

Air Pollution Control, Reports, Observations, Air quality management, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (Periodical)

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EPA moves to clamp down on nonpoint sources of water pollution

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has stepped up efforts to regulate nonpoint sources of water pollution. Runoff from urban and rural lands, including publicly-owned treatment plants, forestry operations and farms make up nonpoint sources of water pollution. EPA has been trying to establish a program that would address nonpoint source pollution caused by runoff from farming operation. The agency is also seeking to release a comprehensive policy that would control water pollution from animal-feeding operations.

Water Pollution, United States. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental policy

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