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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…
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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…
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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 Harvards Dr. Jonathan Levy, this summary describes results of a study undertaken…
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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 childrens health. A number of harmful pollutants are emitted by power plants. Thus, cleaning up power plants will have a…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
