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• 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

• Scraping the “Bottom of the Barrel” for Power: Why there is No Need to Relax Clean Air Safeguards on Dirty Power Plants to “Keep the Lights On”

  In May 2001, the National Coal Council, an organization little-known outside Washington, D.C. energy circles, released a report claiming that: Approximately 40,000 megawatts of electrical production capacity is readily available from existing coal-fired power plants and could be recovered in about 36 months; and Relaxation of the requirements of the…

  Reports & Papers November 1, 2001

• Unfinished Business: Why the Acid Rain Problem is Not Solved

  What is acid rain? Acid rain is the common term used to describe wet, dry and fog deposition of sulfates and nitrates. When sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides are emitted through the burning of fossil fuels into the atmosphere, they come into contact with water where they are converted to…

  Reports & Papers October 1, 2001

• Sulfur Emissions and Midwest Power Plants

  Sulfur emissions from power plants form some of the most harmful common air pollutants. Power plants release more sulfur into the atmosphere than any other emissions sources. Sulfur emissions form some of the most harmful and environmentally damaging pollutants in our air. Each year, uncontrolled power plants release twice as…

  Reports & Papers August 1, 2001

• Power to Kill: Death and Disease from Power Plants Charged with Violating the Clean Air Act

  There are more than 500 major coal-fired power plants in the U.S. today, and the vast majority are decades old. Because of a “grandfathering” loophole in the Clean Air Act, these oldest, dirtiest plants have been able to avoid modern pollution controls. This loophole was granted because it was expected…

  Reports & Papers July 1, 2001