Delaware has begun a rulemaking
process to reduce emissions from the state´s older coal- and oil-fired
power plants.
The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control will
develope a regulation that will require power plants between 25 and 51
years old to cut sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and mercury emissions.
The state will convene a work group of industry representatives and
citizens in the next two months to begin drafting the proposed
regulation. The DNREC hopes to have a final regulation ready for
adoption by the fall of 2006.