Power Plants Ordered To Cut Haze Across Utah Parks
The federal Environmental Protection
Agency is requiring two large, coal-fired power plants in east-central Utah to improve pollution control equipment to reduce haze that
drifts over southern Utah national parks and wilderness areas.
cbsnews.com has this news article about
the requirements. Here are excerpts.
PacifiCorp said it
was already upgrading pollution controls at the Hunter and Huntington
power plants and planned more improvements by 2014 that would bring
them into compliance with the new requirements.
The EPA says haze
has cut views across wild areas of southern Utah to about 60 miles,
or about half of preindustrial levels. Power plants are considered
major culprits for haze but "on the worst days, wildfires and
dust storms" cause most of the problems, Bird said.
Bird said that the
EPA approved other parts of Utah's haze-reduction plan Monday,
including efforts to reduce wildfires that "will be harder to
address."
Utah is supposed
to work on reducing fuels for wildfires — dead and dry tinder.
In a separate
action also announced Monday, the EPA approved Utah's 2008 plan to
reduce ozone, the main ingredient in smog, Bird said.
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