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The Bush Plan Does Not Achieve a True 70% Reduction by 2018

The Bush Plan Does Not Achieve a True 70% Reduction by 2018. Effect of banking on reaching cap. Clear Skies: No Solution to Regional Haze for Acadia. Current polluted day. Under “Clear Skies” 2 deciview improvement. Haze Rule Target: Natural Visibility. WinHaze Visual

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The Bush Plan Does Not Achieve a True 70% Reduction by 2018

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  1. The Bush Plan Does Not Achieve a True 70% Reduction by 2018 Effect of banking on reaching cap

  2. Clear Skies: No Solution to Regional Haze for Acadia Current polluted day Under “Clear Skies” 2 deciview improvement Haze Rule Target: Natural Visibility WinHaze Visual Air Quality Modeler V 2.90 Acadia National Park, Maine

  3. Clear Skies: No Solution toRegional Haze for Great Smoky Under “Clear Skies” 2 deciview improvement Current polluted day Haze Rule Target: Natural Visibility Great Smoky Mountains National Park

  4. Power Plant Deaths Per 100,000 Adults 2020

  5. Clean Power Act 2020

  6. Clear Skies 2020

  7. Clean Air Planning Act 2020

  8. EPA “Straw” Proposal 2020

  9. Counties in Projected to be in Nonattainment for Either PM2.5 or Ozone in 2010 Under Clear Skies

  10. Base-2010 69 counties 32.7 million people

  11. Clear Skies-2010 27 counties 19.1 million people

  12. Clean Air Planning Act-2010 16 counties 15.6 million people

  13. Straw/EPA 2010 13 counties 14 million people

  14. Clean Power Act 2010 5 counties 10.3 million people

  15. The Bush Plan Fails to Solve the Acid Rain Problem Hubbard Brook study found that nothing short of 80% reduction in power plant SO2 would allow biological recovery in damaged NE ecosystems to begin before mid-century. CSI falls short, so problem remains unsolved.

  16. Results from Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH

  17. COMPARISON OF REQUIREMENTS UNDER BUSINESS-AS-USUAL AND THE STRAW PROPOSAL

  18. Under CSA you get . . . PollutantTonsYear SO2 3.5M 2018-25 NOx 1.7M 2018-25 Hg 15 2018-25 But you lose. . . Tight emissions limits for new plants. States’ rights to get reductions from upwind states. Special protections for air quality in national parks. 2010 deadline for clean air standards attainment. Federal protections requiring modern emission controls on plants when they modernize (New Source Review). Residual Mercury risk and other toxic emission control requirements. The Clean Air Act requires . . . PollutantTonsYear SO2 2.0M 2010-12 NOx 1.25M 2009-10 Hg 5 2008 Clear Skies < Clean Air Act

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