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The myth of the dirty power plant : how clean air act programs achieve their air quality goals

1997

363.735
C389

One common myth and misconception is that the United States allows dirty power plants to operate which, in turn, has created many air quality problems. Many people also wrongly believe that future increased coal - fires generation was not anticipated in state environmental compliance plans so further industry - wide emission reductions need to be implemented to offset generation growth. To understand why these myths are no fact, one must understand how Clean Air Act has become one of the most successful environmental programs through tightly regulating environmental emission from all stationary sources. These sources are required to hold an air permit which assigns allowable emission limitations that...

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