Saturday, December 18, 1999
Utilities ordered to reduce emissions
EPA mandate includes Cinergy sites
BY SHANNON McCAFFREY
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Nearly 400 power plants and industrial boilers in 12 states — including Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana — must dramatically reduce smog-producing emissions, the Environmental Protection Agency ruled Friday.
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Local power plants and factories ordered by the EPA to reduce smog-producing emissions:
OHIO
• Dicks Creek, Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co., Butler County
• Hamilton City, Butler County
• J.M. Stuart, Dayton Power & Light Co./Cinergy/Columbus Southern Power Co., Adams County
• Killen Station, Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co./Dayton Power & Light Co., Adams County
• Miami Fort, Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co., Hamilton County
• W.H. Zimmer, Columbus Southern Power Co./Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co./Dayton Power & Light Co., Clermont County
• Walter C. Beckjord, Dayton Power & Light Co./Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co./Columbus Southern Power, Clermont County
• Woodsdale, Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co., Butler County
• AK Steel (formerly Armco Steel Co.), Butler County
• Procter & Gamble Co., Hamilton County
• Champion International Corp., Butler County
• Henkel Corp.-Emery Group, Millennium Chemicals, Hamilton County.
KENTUCKY
• East Bend, Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co./Dayton Power & Light Co., Boone County.
INDIANA
• Tanners Creek, Indiana Michigan Power Co., Dearborn County
| The action came as the EPA approved petitions from New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania complaining that pollutants from the Midwest prevented them from meeting clean air standards.
“Today's action means healthier air in those communities,” EPA Administrator Carol Browner said Friday.
The EPA mandate requires that 392 facilities reduce nitrogen oxide emissions by 49 percent annually by May 2003.
The EPA's list includes plants operated by Cinergy Corp., AK Steel and Procter & Gamble Co.
The EPA estimated that the mandate would cost companies $950 million and could increase the average utility bill by 1.2 percent.
The EPA acted on the petitions from the “downwind” states Friday after two federal appeals court rulings earlier this year stalled a broader strategy of reducing nitrogen oxide emissions in 22 states. On Friday, the EPA bypassed the states and, for the first time, directly targeted specific sources of pollution.
“This is just another attempt at getting around those court decisions,” said Steve Brash, spokesman for Cincinnati-based Cinergy.
Until there is a final decision on those cases, the EPA is wasting its time, Mr. Brash said.
“The problem in these densely populated areas of the Northeast are the cars and trucks they have crowding their streets each day,” said Pat D. Hemlepp, spokesman for Ohio-based American Electric Power.
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