Comments on: Cleaning up air could harm quality of water http://greatlakesecho.org/2009/12/18/cleaning-up-air-could-harm-quality-of-water/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:59:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Special Report: Cleaning Coal | Great Lakes Echo http://greatlakesecho.org/2009/12/18/cleaning-up-air-could-harm-quality-of-water/comment-page-1/#comment-3588 Special Report: Cleaning Coal | Great Lakes Echo Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:08:52 +0000 http://greatlakesecho.org/?p=15134#comment-3588 [...] 2009 Coal-fired power plants install devices called scrubbers to cap air emissions, but that only displaces the pollution to the water. Share [...] [...] 2009 Coal-fired power plants install devices called scrubbers to cap air emissions, but that only displaces the pollution to the water. Share [...]

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]]> By: Taber Law Group » Blog Archive » Environmental Law and Climate Change Law News & Updates – December 21, 2009 http://greatlakesecho.org/2009/12/18/cleaning-up-air-could-harm-quality-of-water/comment-page-1/#comment-3515 Taber Law Group » Blog Archive » Environmental Law and Climate Change Law News & Updates – December 21, 2009 Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:45:34 +0000 http://greatlakesecho.org/?p=15134#comment-3515 [...] Cleaning up air could harm quality of water. — Yang Zhang and Rachael Gleason, Great Lakes Echo, December 18, 2009 Burning coal is dirty business. The fuel is laden with heavy metals such as mercury and arsenic and chemicals that cause acid rain. When power plants burn coal, they release the contaminants into the air. Over the past couple of decades, increasingly stringent air pollution standards have forced power plants to clean up their dirty air. The universal solution? Scrubbers that use a spray of water to trap air pollutants. But scrubbers don’t really solve the pollution problem. They just move it somewhere else, and that movement is starting to cause problems, particularly as federal regulators consider tough new regulations on water pollution from power plants. Click Here [...] [...] Cleaning up air could harm quality of water. — Yang Zhang and Rachael Gleason, Great Lakes Echo, December 18, 2009 Burning coal is dirty business. The fuel is laden with heavy metals such as mercury and arsenic and chemicals that cause acid rain. When power plants burn coal, they release the contaminants into the air. Over the past couple of decades, increasingly stringent air pollution standards have forced power plants to clean up their dirty air. The universal solution? Scrubbers that use a spray of water to trap air pollutants. But scrubbers don’t really solve the pollution problem. They just move it somewhere else, and that movement is starting to cause problems, particularly as federal regulators consider tough new regulations on water pollution from power plants. Click Here [...]

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]]> By: December 21, 2009 – Environmental Law Settlements, Decisions, Regulatory Actions and Lawsuit Filings « Environmental Law & Climate Change Law Blog http://greatlakesecho.org/2009/12/18/cleaning-up-air-could-harm-quality-of-water/comment-page-1/#comment-3487 December 21, 2009 – Environmental Law Settlements, Decisions, Regulatory Actions and Lawsuit Filings « Environmental Law & Climate Change Law Blog Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:02:52 +0000 http://greatlakesecho.org/?p=15134#comment-3487 [...] Cleaning up air could harm quality of water. — Yang Zhang and Rachael Gleason, Great Lakes Echo, December 18, 2009 Burning coal is dirty business. The fuel is laden with heavy metals such as mercury and arsenic and chemicals that cause acid rain. When power plants burn coal, they release the contaminants into the air. Over the past couple of decades, increasingly stringent air pollution standards have forced power plants to clean up their dirty air. The universal solution? Scrubbers that use a spray of water to trap air pollutants. But scrubbers don’t really solve the pollution problem. They just move it somewhere else, and that movement is starting to cause problems, particularly as federal regulators consider tough new regulations on water pollution from power plants. Click Here [...] [...] Cleaning up air could harm quality of water. — Yang Zhang and Rachael Gleason, Great Lakes Echo, December 18, 2009 Burning coal is dirty business. The fuel is laden with heavy metals such as mercury and arsenic and chemicals that cause acid rain. When power plants burn coal, they release the contaminants into the air. Over the past couple of decades, increasingly stringent air pollution standards have forced power plants to clean up their dirty air. The universal solution? Scrubbers that use a spray of water to trap air pollutants. But scrubbers don’t really solve the pollution problem. They just move it somewhere else, and that movement is starting to cause problems, particularly as federal regulators consider tough new regulations on water pollution from power plants. Click Here [...]

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