Northeast states want EPA to regulate emissions from Midwest and South

[mota bhai 2,675]

December 9, 2013 12:20PM ET

Governors of eight Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday to require upwind states in the Midwest and South to curb ozone-forming pollution from their power plants, which they say travels downwind and poses health risks to their citizens.

They want the EPA to force nine states Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia to regulate emissions that cross their borders on prevailing winds and contribute to higher ozone levels to the north and east of the upwind states.

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The governors, led by Delaware's Jack Markell, said the upwind states have for decades failed to install the technology needed to contain emissions of volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides, which exacerbate symptoms of asthma and other respiratory diseases and contribute to as much as 98 percent of the ozone air-pollution problems in the downwind states.

The petition asks the EPA to require the upwind states to join them in an ozone transport region which under the federal Clean Air Act would force actions to limit air pollution consistent with the efforts of the downwind states. Under that kind of pact, the Midwestern states would need to install what are known as best available control technologies to capture the emissions.

Besides Delaware the states petitioning for the controls are Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont. Markell said downwind states pay the price for the failure of other states to install necessary controls.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/9/northeast-mid-atlanticwantsepatoregulateupwindstatesemissions.html

[luckytxn 2,265]

You working late?

[mota bhai 2,675]

On a bridge call. Overnight change going in.

[GandD 5,966]

Workin' late or hardly workin'?

[mota bhai 2,675]

I didn't have to say a word or lift a finger. I was there "just in case". The perfect overnight change.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The Norwegians have the same complaint about the UK. Understandable, although hard to see how it would be achieveable.

[Ban Hammer 13,597]

i wonder how long this will last when the power to those states is cut. a power plant near me sends its power to illinois, not to the local conglomerate.