MACT standards to hit industrial coal-fired boilers hard: CIBO

摘要

Operators of industrial coal-fired boilers, particularly those burning Illinois Basin coal, will be hard pressed to meet the emissions limits the US Environmental Protection Agency has specified in its proposal for regulating hazardous air pollutants through the use of maximum achievable control technology, or MACT, according to the Council of Industrial Boiler Owners. “Let's put it this way, there is no compliance coal that can meet the limits, as proposed by EPA,” said CIBO President Bob Bessette during an American Coal Council-sponsored webcast about the economic impact of the proposed industrial boiler MACT regulations.