US House bill would cut power plant emissions of four pollutants

US House bill would cut power plant emissions of four pollutants

Washington (Platts)--28Apr2005


Four US House members have introduced a bill to reduce coal-fired generation
emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, mercury and carbon dioxide. The
bill (HR 1873) was referred to the House Energy and Commerce Committee where
supporters are hopeful it will be considered later this year when the panel
debates the president's "Clear Skies" bill to control power plant pollution.

Rep Charles Bass (Republican-New Hampshire), Jim Davis (Democrat-Florida), Jim
Cooper (Democrat-Tennessee) and Jeb Bradley (Republican-New Hampshire) late
Wednesday introduced the bill, which updates legislation they introduced in
the last Congress. The bill seeks to cap SO2 by as much as 75% by 2017, NOx by
67% by 2015, mercury by nearly 80% by 2015 and CO2 at 2001 levels--or 2.14-bil
tons--by 2015. Both the House bill and Clear Skies offer an emissions trading
scheme to aid utilities' compliance but the White House bill, which stalled in
the Senate last month, does not cap CO2 and imposes less stringent caps and
deadlines in 2018.

This story was originally published in Platts Electricity Alert
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