Dive Summary:
- Big Rivers Electric Cooperative, a Kentucky utility responsible for four power plants and a 1,266-mile transmission system, told the Kentucky Public Service Commission Wednesday that it would end plans to implement certain pollution control after a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled against the EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule Tuesday.
- Big Rivers still plans to follow through with a $60 million plan to limit mercury and other toxic air contaminants, but plans solely included for the sake of being in compliance with the rule are being scrapped.
- A spokesman indicated that other pollution controls are in place at plants 100 miles upwind from the Louisville area.
From the article:
The fallout from Tuesday’s federal appeals court decision scrapping a major EPA rule designed to curb drifting power plant pollution has begun.
A Western Kentucky utility told the Kentucky Public Service Commission Wednesday morning that it intends to scrap pollution controls that would have allowed it comply with the EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, also known as the transport rule. ...
