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 http://www.electricityalert.platts.com
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