Reports & Papers

Viewing page 17 of 18

• Mercury and Midwest Power Plants

  Residents in the Midwest share a rich tradition of outdoor recreation in our forests, lakes and rivers. However, we also share a common threat to these traditions: mercury from coal-fired power plants. Across the United States, including the Great Lakes region, mercury pollution has contaminated freshwater and saltwater fish. This…

  Reports & Papers February 1, 2003

• Nitrogen Oxide Emissions and Midwest Power Plants

  The release of nitrogen into our environment has more than doubled over the past century, contributing to problems such as ground level ozone, acid rain and other environmental challenges. In the Midwest, coal-fired power plants are one of the largest sources of nitrogen oxide pollution, accounting for 30 percent of…

  Reports & Papers January 1, 2003

• Air of Injustice: African Americans and Power Plant Pollution

  This report chronicles how African Americans are affected by the air pollution emitted by our nation’s biggest polluters: coal-fired power plants. These plants release millions of pounds of a wide variety of chemicals to the air, water and landfills. This report describes the relationship between power plant pollutants like sulfur…

  Reports & Papers October 1, 2002

• A Preliminary Analysis of the Benefits and Costs of Current New Source Review Litigation

  If all 51 plants charged with NSR violations were cleaned up to BACT levels, avoided asthma and premature deaths alone would total $24-38 billion 1999 dollars. The total cost of the reductions is roughly an order of magnitude less than the benefits–on an annual basis, the cost to clean up…

  Reports & Papers June 1, 2002

• Health Impacts of Air Pollution from Washington DC Area Power Plants

  Health Impacts of Air Pollution from Washington D.C. Area Power Plants. Summary by John Thompson, Clean Air Task Force (May 2002). Based on a May 17, 2002 briefing before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee by Harvard’s Dr. Jonathan Levy, this summary describes results of a study undertaken…

  Reports & Papers May 1, 2002

• Children at Risk: How Air Pollution from Power Plants Threatens the Health of America’s Children

  Whether at home, school, or play, children are exposed to emissions from power plants. This report reviews important recent advances in our understanding of the link between air pollution and children’s health. A number of harmful pollutants are emitted by power plants. Thus, cleaning up power plants will have a…

  Reports & Papers May 1, 2002

• The Last Straw: Water Use by Power Plants in the Arid West

  Fossil-fueled power plants are widely recognized as major sources of air pollutants that damage human health and the environment. But they also have a significant impact on water, both as large users and polluters. Water has always been scarce in the West and subject to fierce competition between various users,…

  Reports & Papers April 1, 2002

• Climate Change and Midwest Power Plants

  Our climate is an ever-changing natural system of complexly linked relationships between the atmosphere, the land and the oceans. But as population has spiraled upward in the past century, our use of energy and other resources has disrupted the delicate balance in the Earth’’s systems. We must begin to right…

  Reports & Papers February 1, 2002