epa, in charge of giving the permits for new equpment to the coal plants. there also trying to stop the coal plants. so if you can not get the new permits for the stuff to make the air cleaner, you can not stay in operation. any one ever watch the movie "catch 22"
http://www.courierpress.com/news/2013/j ... -inches-p/Pollution from power plants limits industrial growth in five Indiana counties
INDIANAPOLIS — Portions of five Indiana counties that are home to aging coal-fired power plants are facing limits on new industry now that the federal government has determined those areas don’t meet its new, tougher standard for an air pollutant that causes acid rain and aggravates respiratory ailments.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency notified Indiana officials July 25 that parts of Central Indiana’s Marion and Morgan counties, Southwestern Indiana’s Daviess and Pike counties and Vigo County in Western Indiana exceed the EPA’s new sulfur dioxide standard. Sulfur dioxide is a gas with the smell of rotting eggs.
EPA documents detailing the failure of the five areas to meet the agency’s new, one-hour standard of 75 parts per billion of the gas show that power plants situated in the nine affected townships account for nearly all of each area’s sulfur dioxide emissions.
The plant on the list with the highest emissions is Hoosier Energy’s Ratts Station, a Pike County plant that emits more than 27,000 tons of sulfur dioxide each year, according to the documents.
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