New federal emissions standards cover landfills; regulations now recognize that landfills are significant sources of local, regional air pollution

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The large contribution of landfills to air pollution is becoming more evident and the EPA has in the last 2 years issued revised landfill permitting guidelines and promulgated emission standards for landfills, thus adding to the list of stationary air pollution sources which the agency has kept since the 1970s. Air pollution from these sites comes from the decomposition of organic matter in municipal solid waste and consists mainly of carbon dioxide, methane and non-methane organic compounds. Landfill gas is emitted early in a site's operational life and continues for as much as 4 decades after the landfill is closed.

Sanitary landfills, Hazardous waste sites

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As utilities deregulate, EPA concentrates on coal

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Deregulation means that electric utilities consider the efficiency of electric power plants to be more important than environmental protection, and according to EPA forecasts the low prices of coal-fired plants make them good candidates to meet increases in electrical demand in a competitive environment. Since coal is not as clean-burning as other fossil fuels, the EPA is of the view that coal-power plants cause more air pollution than plants using other fuels. That many coal-fired plants existed before the adoption of the Clean Air Act is another consideration.

United States, Electric power-plants, Electric power plants

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One-size-fits-all EPA rules need modifying

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The opposition of bureaucrats and environmentalists are apparently behind EPA failure to support open-market-trading for smog-related nitrogen oxide emissions and this could be a major embarrassment to the Clinton administration. Given the difficulties of applying the acid rain model to this type of pollution, such trading should be considered as a way of dealing with regional smog problems.

Management, Economic aspects, Emissions credit trading, Emissions trading, Environmental protection

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