제 목 : Utilities Greatly Reduce ACID Rain Pollutants
일 자 : 1997년 10월
제공처 : Safety + health(EPA Update)
Utilities Greatly Reduce ACID Rain Pollutants
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Utilities last year reduced pollution that causes acid rain beyond require-
ments outlined by the Clean Air Act, according to a recently released
EPAreport. The biggest utility boilers exceeded federal reduction re-
quirements for sulfur dioxide emissions by 35 percent, and for nitrogen
oxide emissions by 18 percent.
Electric utilities are responsible for more than 65 percent of the
nation's sulfur dioxide emissions, and more than 28 percent of its
nitrogen oxide emissions. To reduce utility emissions, the Clean Air Act
identifies the biggest and dirtiest utility boilers anJ. requires them to
substantially reduce emissions by 2000.
The report found these utilit boilers comply with all acid-rain
requirements of the law related to sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide
emissions.
"The utility industry has been planning for years to determine the
best way to reduce these emissions," says John Kinsman, manager for
Atmospheric Science at Edison EIectric lnstitute, a trade associa-
tion of investor-owned utilities. By "banking" sulfur dioxide reductions,
utilities are minimizing costs and easing the transition to the next
phase of emission-reduction levels in 2000, he says.
The "l996 Compliance Report, Acid Rain Program," is available on
the World Wide Web at http://www.epa.gov/acidrain/cmprpt96/cr1996.html,
or from the Acid Rain Hotline at (202)233-9620. Fortechnical information,
contact Melanie Dean in the EPA's Acid Rain Division at (202)233-9189.
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