New Analysis: EPA Waiver Slows Down Historic Power Plant Pollution Clean Up
Air date: Week of 10/17/2007
Story length: 4:41
Analyst: Ann Murray
 American Electric Power's John E. Amos Plant along the Kanawha River Mile. AEP has agreed to install $4.5 billion in pollution controls. Photo by Tim Smith, US Army Corps of Engineers. |
The US Environmental Protection Agency has joined the settlement to force the largest power-plant pollution clean up ever in the United States. But the agency has just added an exception to this legal action that will slow down the installation of pollution controls for years. Ann Murray joins Matthew Craig to talk about how the settlement touches on the most contentious part of the Bush administration's air pollution policy and impacts the environment here in Pennsylvania.
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