EPA To Clamp Down On Coal Plant Wastewater

摘要

The Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday it plans to "revise" existing, decades-old guidelines for water discharges of toxic metals from fossil fuel-fired power plants, saying a recently concluded EPA study focused mostly on wastewater discharges from coal-fired power plants uncovered elevated levels of toxic pollutants. EPA said the study underscored for the agency that existing "effluent limitation guidelines," or ELGs, recommending limits on discharges from steam electric power plants, first introduced under the Clean Water Act in 1982, have not kept pace with changes that have occurred in the electric power industry.