The U.S. government is set to impose a 'good neighbor' rule that would require costly emission controls on coal plants in Utah and Wyoming needed to limit ozone pollution in Colorado.
, also known as the “good neighbor provision” of the Clean Air Act.
“We’ll be working with other states around us as well. But if we don’t win this battle with the EPA, we’ll be shutting down our coal-fired power plants in the next two or three years,” he said. “None of us will still have the power that we need to operate our daily lives.” The EPA has determined that NOx from these plants is blown east and potentially forms ozone in Colorado, where the Denver metro area is out of attainment for the federal ozone standard. NOx and other pollutants react with sunlight, rearranging their molecular structure to become ozone, a highly reactive three-atom oxygen molecule that damages lung tissue.
For Utah, however, the agency’s proposed remedy is not realistic and threatens grid reliability, Thom Carter, RMP’s director of governmental affairs, told lawmakers last week. “It’s very impractical to meet the timelines that they are proposing, both in terms of trying to install SCR by 2026 or trying to get new generation online. This rule is very problematic,” Peterson told lawmakers. “We have issues because we don’t have enough dispatchable power at these times when power demand is at its highest. And this rule would have the effect of shuttering some of that dispatchable power that we have in Utah and would just exacerbate that problem.
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