Laptop Battery Beginning today, Pennsylvania and New Jersey residents near PPL Corp.'s Martins Creek power plant may be able to breathe a little bit easier.
- in this case, the "deal" struck by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and PPL's Martins Creek plant. Warren County officials are happy, Gov. McGreevy is happy, the Pennsylvania and New Jersey DEPs, even the Sierra Club. What's wrong with this picture
Thinkpad PPL will begin using coal and oil with lower sulfur content at the aging power plant as part of a settlement with Pennsylvania and New Jersey environmental authorities signed last year. It's the first step in a plan that will lead to either the permanent shutdown of the two coal-fired generating units or their reconversion to cleaner-burning operations.
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Microsoft Today's step will reduce sulfur dioxide emissions at Martin's Creek by 20 percent for the two coal-fired units and 30 percent for its two oil-fired units.
fired power plants in the state that use coal from Wyoming and Colorado. The Bush administration's energy policy, which stalled in the Senate last year and could be revived this year, offers $ coal technology. fired power plants have declined in the past 30 years by 76 percent in sulfur dioxide and 58 percent in nitrogen oxide.
Laptop Computers The change could be significant because sulfur dioxide pollution is associated with respiratory illness and aggravation of existing cardiovascular disease, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Children, the elderly and people with asthma, lung disease such as bronchitis or emphysema and heart disease are most threatened by exposure to sulfur dioxide pollution.
fired plant in Shelocta, Pa. The plant, owned by Exelon and PSEG, is so old that the owners are not required to comply with the federal New Source Review. In 2002, the plant had the third highest levels of sulfur dioxide emissions in the country. Largely because of dirty coal plants like this one, New Jersey suffers from some of the highest levels of soot and smog in the nation.
Laptop Computer Additionally, reductions in sulfur dioxide will reduce acid rain, a problem that particularly plagues the eastern United States, according to EPA.
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Desktop Computer ''Will it help? Certainly,'' said Bud Allen of White Township, N.J.
Notebooks ''It's certainly a step in the right direction,'' said William Rosebrock, chairman of the Warren County Environmental Commission.
Lenovo Officials could not specify how great the improvement in air quality may be, but Ron Ruman of the state Department of Environmental Protection said sulfur dioxide pollution ''should go down to some extent immediately.''
Hard Drive The results also may be seen in asthma patients living in Warren County who are part of an ongoing health study.
Travelstar PPL officials say they don't anticipate that great an improvement in air quality, saying that the Martins Creek plant has not been the cause of sulfur dioxide pollution in Warren County.
Gateway ''The real measure is going to be what's the air quality,'' said spokeswoman Connie Walker. ''And the only objective way to get that is through air monitoring. And we are part of an air monitoring program in that area.''
Laptop Parts Allen, chairman of the Warren-Northampton Regional Air Quality Advisory Panel, said three air quality stations have shown air pollution levels in the region to be mostly good. The data for the air tests can be found at the panel's Web site at www.airqap.com.
Software However, several Warren County communities across the Delaware River from Martins Creek remain listed by the EPA as exceeding sulfur dioxide pollution levels.
Hard Drives PPL agreed to use the lower sulfur coal and oil and shut down or ''repower'' Martins Creek's coal-burning units by 2007 in return for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's dropping of an appeal in Harrisburg. That appeal held up an air-quality permit that had been approved for PPL's 600-megawatt natural gas plant, adjacent to the Martins Creek plant.
Electronics By withdrawing the appeal, PPL was able to move forward with plans for the plant, which could begin providing power in the next few weeks.
Canon ''We are in final testing stages,'' said Walker. ''We should be coming into service sometime in early May.''
Desktop Pc The clean-burning, natural-gas-fired plant will produce twice as much power as the coal-fired units, with 90 percent fewer sulfur dioxide emissions. The coal-fired generators are 50 and 48 years old and would have had to have been replaced, PPL officials have said. Because of its age, the Martins Creek plant did not have to meet emission standards tougher than those applied to newer plants.
Desktop Computers A megawatt is enough electricity to power about 1,000 average homes.
Think Pad New Jersey environmental officials said they will ask EPA to redesignate Warren County as an ''attainment area'' for sulfur dioxide pollution after PPL satisfies its obligations under the settlement.
Repair By Tim Darragh
The Morning Call - 5/1/2004
Topic: Air Pollution
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