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Cleaning Up Power Plants

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Air pollution contributes to haze that obscures both city skylines and our wilderness areas.
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Landmark Settlement Makes Polluter Pay

Environment America and a coalition of states and citizen groups announced a landmark court settlement with American Electric Power (AEP) that will substantially reduce air pollution from the company’s fleet of aging coal-fired power plants.  The coalition sued AEP in 1999 for violating the Clean Air Act’s “New Source Review” rules, which require power companies to install modern pollution controls when otherwise upgrading their plants.

What's at stake

Pollution from power plants are threatening our health and environment. More than half of all Americans live in areas that fail to meet minimum health standards for smog and soot. And pollution from power plants is responsible for mercury that has caused fish consumption advisories in at least 45 states.

Yet the Bush administration’s so-called "Clear Skies Initiative" would have weakened the Clean Air Act by setting pollution caps that fail to protect public health.

The rule was successfully struck down by a federal court earlier this year. In the absence of federal action many states are moving on their own to address smog, soot and mercury pollution.

In the states, we're working to oppose new coal-fired power plants in Florida and Wisconsin. 

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Recent actions and results

We helped pass the Colorado Clean Air Act and won new rules requiring cleaner gasoline and new limits on smog pollution from oil and gas wells.
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Hot and Smoggy: The Ozone-Hot Weather Connection in Eight California Cities 10/30/2007

Despite years of progress in cleaning up California’s air, millions of Californians continue to breathe the dirtiest air in the nation. In fact, the Golden State is home to eight of the 10 most ozone-polluted counties in the United States.