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WASHINGTON, Dec. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "EPA's MACT rule is the most expensive rule in the agency's history. It will require a significant number of electric generating units to design, obtain approval for and install complex controls or replacements in a very short timeframe. In some cases, it will mean that new transmission and natural gas pipelines will have to be built. EPA has made useful technical changes from its original proposal. Nevertheless, we believe the Administration is underestimating the complexity of implementing this rule in such a short period of time, which can create reliability challenges and even higher costs to customers. The Administration is not using all the available authorities in the Clean Air Act to coordinate implementation, to ensure elect...
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The EPA is proposing amendments to the national emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants for Primary Aluminum Reduction Plants to address the results of the residual risk and technology review that the EPA is required to conduct by the Clean Air Act. If finalized, these proposed amendments would address previously unregulated emissions (i.e., carbonyl sulfide (COS) emissions from new and existing potlines and polycyclic organic matter (POM) emissions from new and existing prebake potlines and existing pitch storage tanks); remove the vertical stud Soderberg one (VSS1) potline subcategory; reduce the MACT limits for POM emissions from horizontal stud Soderberg (HSS) and VSS2 potlines; eliminate the startup, shutdown and malfunction exemption in accordance with recent actions by t...
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Although cost-prohibitive cap-and-trade legislation is on the back burner for now, the government's agency of emission omissions nevertheless is ramping up a punishing new policy. What's proposed could shut down boilers across a spectrum of commercial uses -- from manufacturing plants to apartment buildings. The Environmental Protection Agency says its new rule, called "Boiler MACT," requires commercial, industrial and institutional boilers to reduce emissions. (The "MACT" stands for "maximum achievable control technology.") The problem is, the suggested standards are too high to be realistically achieved even by the best- performing units, according to the industry group Industrial Energy Consumers of America (IECA).
