EPA Pollution Plan to Cost Texas $2B

environmentalleader.com - November 26, 2014

The EPA has proposed a plan to reduce harmful emissions of sulfur dioxide in parts of Texas and Oklahoma that would require operators of some of Texas’ coal-fired power plants to spend over $2 billion on emissions-reducing technology, according to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

The plan, released Monday, would require 15 units at eight coal-fired plants be retrofitted with controls to help clear the air at Texas’ Big Bend and Guadalupe Mountains National Parks and the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma.

The plan comes after the EPA proposed to partially approve and partially disapprove the state of Texas’ regional haze plan intended to meet federal Clean Air Act requirements.

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