Sentences with phrase «pollution than the utility»

In other words, Holmstead pushed for a ten year delay that ultimately allowed three times the mercury pollution than the Utility MACT he blocked [Heinzerling & Steinzor, p. 11].

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While water utilities across the country spend more than $ 50 billion a year to treat drinking water, the nation spends $ 207 million a year to protect source waters and prevent pollution from sources such as urban runoff, the study says.

A recent study found that an electric car charged by utilities at night in the regional grid that stretches across Ohio, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Virginia creates more greenhouse gas pollution than if owners plugged in their vehicles at random times throughout the daytime, when the utility fuel mixes are more varied.

See, not only is Southern Co one of the nation's largest coal - burning utilities, but it creates more carbon pollution than any other utility in the country and ranks # 7 in global power company carbon emissions.

Electric utilities would have three to four years to come into compliance under the new standards, and according to the EPA, «[M] ore than half of all coal - fired power plants already deploy the widely available pollution - control technologies that allow them to meet these important standards.»