NRDC’s Plan to Reduce Power Plant Emissions
From: Gina-Marie Cheeseman, Triple Pundit, More from
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Published December 12, 2012 08:40 AM
2.4 billion tons of carbon a year is emitted from generating power
plants, a huge number (about 40% of the total emissions in the U.S) and a huge
contributor to the pollution problem. This is why the “Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) released a
proposal to reduce power plant pollution by 26 percent by 2020 and 34 percent
by 2025.” The plan rests with the EPA setting state-specific emission rates,
and set the new carbon pollution standards under the Clean Air Act. The
benefits of plan outweigh the cost by a whopping 15 times as much, with ‘the price tag
in 2020 being $4 billion, and the benefits being $25 to 60 billion, which is six
to 15 times greater than the costs.’ This plan is a great addition to help
clean up existing plants as standards proposed in April 2012, to have plant
emit a maximum of “1,000 pounds per megawatt hour (ibs/mWh)”, only applies to
new plants. This plan is one that battles all plant emissions as a whole.
I think
this is a great plan for the future. There really is a huge problem with
pollution in our world and the sooner solutions are put into action, the sooner
we can start cleaning up the planet we dirtied. It’s so important to take
global warming seriously and I’m glad that new standard are being proposed and
reported on to get the word out there. I want the world to be a healthier,
cleaner earth again and I hope we can clean up fast enough.
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