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NEW! Download New Wind Power
Petition NEW!
(wind power petition is in Microsoft Word
.doc format)
Dispelling Common Myths about Wind
Power
(display
PDF with graphs)
Why Wind Development for North
Carolina?
(display
PDF with graphs)
The NC Wind Energy Site at
Appalachian State University
Comparison
of Clear Skies vs. Clean Air Act (Adobe
.pdf format)
The following fact sheets are
in MS Word 2000 format (.doc):
Air
Quality Facts for Kids
The
EPA’s Regional Haze Rule
The EPA
enacted the Regional Haze Rule in July 1999. This measure
outlines a framework to return visibility levels in 156
National Parks, National Wildernesses and other
“Class I” areas to their natural conditions
over the next sixty years. It is essentially a plan to
make a plan.
Best Available
Retrofit Technology (BART)
The EPA’s
Regional Haze Rule, under the Clean Air Act, includes a
set of guidelines known as “BART” or Best
Available Retrofit Technology. These guidelines apply to
facilities built between 1962 and 1977 that produce more
than 250 tons of any visibility-degrading emission per
year, such as Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) and
Nitrogen Oxide (NOx).
Federal Clean Air Legislation
The Clean Power
Act
(Jeffords
Bill, S556) Introduced 3/15/2001
Latest
Major Action:
6/27/2002 Senate committee/subcommittee actions.
Status:
Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of
a substitute favorably.
Title:
A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to reduce emissions
from electric powerplants,
and for other purposes.
Clean
Smokestacks Act
(Waxman
Bill, HR1256) Introduced 3/27/2001
Latest
Major Action:
4/16/2001 Referred to House subcommittee.
Status:
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
Title:
To amend the Clean Air Act to reduce emissions from
electric powerplants, and for other purposes.
The Clean
Power Act
(Allen
Bill, HR1335) Introduced 4/3/2001
Referred
to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition
to the Committees on Education and the Workforce,
Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure,
and Science, for a period to be subsequently determined
by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the
committee concerned.
Latest
Major Action:
6/20/2001 Referred to House subcommittee.
Status:
Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century
Competitiveness.
Title:
To reduce emissions of mercury, carbon dioxide, nitrogen
oxides, and sulfur dioxide from fossil fuel-fired
electric utility generating units operating in the United
States, and for other purposes.
The Clean Power Plant and Modernization
Act
(Leahy
Bill, S1131) Introduced 6/28/2001
Latest
Major Action:
6/28/2001 Referred to Senate committee.
Status:
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Title:
A bill to promote economically sound modernization of
electric power generation capacity in the United States,
to establish requirements to improve the combustion heat
rate efficiency of fossil fuel-fired electric utility
generating units, to reduce emissions of mercury, carbon
dioxide, nitrogen, oxides, and sulfur dioxide, to require
that all fossil fuel-fired electric utility generating
units operating in the United States meet new sources
review requirements, to promote the use of clean coal
technologies, and to promote alternative energy and clean
energy sources such as solar, wind, biomass, and fuel
cells.
The Great Smoky
Mountains Clean Air Act
(Taylor
Bill, HR4859) Introduced 7/13/2000
Latest
Major Action:
8/2/2000 Referred to House subcommittee.
Status:
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
Title:
To reduce emissions from Tennessee Valley Authority
electric powerplants,
and for other purposes.
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