Sentences with phrase «sulfur emissions from power plants»

To combat the problem the first time around, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency passed the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, which cut sulfur emissions from power plants by 59 percent from 1990 to 2008.

In 1995, the first year of the new rules, sulfur emissions from power plants dropped by 19 % to 11.9 million tons, more than 3 million tons below allowable limits.

Not exact matches

Under that program, power plant owners who installed equipment to scrub the sulfur dioxide out of the emissions from their smokestacks could then sell for a profit any leftover allowances to other polluters unable or unwilling to make the pricey upgrades.

I criticized this statement, noting that the actual emissions from U.S. coal - burning power plants declined only from 16.1 million tons to 12.4 million tons between 1980 and 1998 in the case of sulfur dioxide and from 6.1 million tons to 5.4 million tons between 1980 and 1998 in the case of nitrogen oxides (mostly emitted as NO, not NO2, but by convention measured as tons of NO2 - equivalent).

The researchers say that the first of the two NJDEP's petitions shows that the 30,465 tons of sulfur dioxide emitted by the plant in 2009 was more than double the sulfur dioxide emissions from all power - generating facilities in New Jersey combined.

«Living downwind of coal - fired power plant could increase risk of low birth weight: Study found that babies born during 1990 - 2006 to mothers living as far as 20 to 30 miles away from proven emitter of sulfur dioxide emissions had 6.5 percent greater risk of low birth weight and 17.12 percent greater risk of very low birth weight.»

Specifically, two petitions filed by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) with the EPA against a Pennsylvania power plant — the Portland Generating Station (PGS)-- show that sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions from the plant have reached four New Jersey counties as far as 20 to 30 miles away.

It's been a quarter century since government regulations limiting emissions of sulfur and nitrogen oxides from coal - fired power plants began to neutralize the problem of acid rain, but lakes in the northeastern U.S. and eastern Canada have been sluggish to recover.

China is the world's largest SO2 emitter, mostly due to the burning of high - sulfur coal in its many coal - fired power plants, which lack the technology used in many other countries to remove sulfur from smoke stack emissions.

In June 1989, President George H. W. Bush proposed the use of a cap - and - trade system to cut by half sulfur dioxide emissions from coal - fired power plants and consequent acid rain.

Over months of contentious debate, while the Waxman - Markey bill and subsequent Senate action were being considered, millions of Americans were introduced for the first time to the phrase «cap and trade,» a regulatory approach that first came to prominence in the 1990s as the centerpiece of a national program to address the threat of acid rain by limiting emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2), primarily from electric power plants.

In response, the IPCC added a cooling factor to its models of the atmosphere, consisting of tiny aerosol particles produced by the emission of sulfur dioxide from electric power plants.

The administration is likely to argue that cutting CO2 emissions from power plants would also be helping to reduce the release of respiratory irritants sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide.

The DC Circuit today struck down EPA's Cross State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR), the EPA's latest attempt to regulate sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from power plants, using at least somewhat flexible, market - based tools.

Steadily improving air pollution controls have sent sulfur dioxide emissions from U.S. coal - fired power plants tumbling by more than 40 % and particulate emissions (the alleged cause of asthma) by more than 90 % since 1970, says air quality expert Joel Schwartz, even as coal use tripled.

While the EPA has, under the Clean Air Act put federal limits on toxic emissions of arsenic, mercury, and lead pollution that power plants emit — as well as on pollutants like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides — there are currently no such limits on the carbon emissions from new or existing power plants.

Even with much decreased numbers, the report says sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from coal power plants will «continue to take a significant toll on the health and longevity of millions of Americans.»

Enron had banked on trading permits for carbon dioxide emissions, which would have been based upon the existing permit system for sulfur dioxide emissions from coal - burning electric power plants.

A unique reusable organic liquid developed at PNNL can remove and store harmful gases from power plant emissions, including sulfur dioxide, a primary cause of acid rain.

They argued that much of the EPA program's apparent success in reducing SO2 emissions from power plants was due to simultaneous railroad deregulation which reduced the cost of delivering low sulfur coal strip - mined in the west.

Under that program, power plant owners who installed equipment to scrub the sulfur dioxide out of the emissions from their smokestacks could then sell for a profit any leftover allowances to other polluters unable or unwilling to make the pricey upgrades.

Sure enough, over time sulfur - dioxide emissions from power plants were cut almost in half, at a much lower cost than even optimists expected; electricity prices fell instead of rising.

Emissions of sulfur dioxide from power plants, it turned out, tend to combine with water downwind and produce flora - and wildlife - destroying sulfuric acid.