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Electric utilities are one of the most significant sources of harmful air emissions, responsible for substantial levels of nitrogen oxides (NO_x), sulfur dioxide (SO₂) and hazardous air pollutants, including mercury (Hg). These sources are also responsible for considerable carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions. If properly structured, a comprehensive, integrated control strategy for electric utilities will offer multiple benefits including increasing environmental and public health protection beyond that achieved by existing regulatory programs, enhanced opportunities for pollution prevention and sustainability, as well as promotion of early compliance. A multi-pollutant approach could also offer the regulated community and air quality regulators important advantages, such as increased certainty and cost efficiencies. Currently, proposals for multi-pollutant strategies for power plants are under consideration in Congress, and have been proposed or adopted in a number of states.

NACAA Positions

• STAPPA/ALAPCO Response to Senator Voinovich's Analysis of the Associations' Testimony on Clear Skies (February 16, 2005)
  
• STAPPA/ALAPCO Senate Testimony on Multi-Pollutant Legislation (January 26, 2005)
  
• Analysis of STAPPA and ALAPCO’s May 7, 2002 Principles for a Multi-Pollutant Strategy for Power Plants (March 15, 2004)
  
• One-Page Side-by-Side Comparing Administration's Clear Skies Proposal to STAPPA/ALAPCO's MPS Principles (February 26, 2003)
  
• STAPPA/ALAPCO Statement on Clear Skies (February 26, 2003)
  
• STAPPA and ALAPCO Testimony Before Senate EPW Committee on Multi-Pollutant Approaches(June 12, 2002)
  
• STAPPA and ALAPCO Testimony on CAA Implementation before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality
  (June 5, 2002)
  
• STAPPA/ALAPCO Multi-Pollutant Strategy for Power Plants (May 7, 2002)
  
• STAPPA/ALAPCO Follow-Up Letter to EIA on Data Confidentiality (August 21, 2001)
  
• STAPPA/ALAPCO's Comments on EIA Proposal (May 14, 2001)
  
• STAPPA/ALAPCO Testimony on the H.R. 1647 the
  
• STAPPA and ALAPCO Letter to the Senate Environment Committee on an Integrated Utility Regulatory Concept (May 16, 2000)
  

Related Documents

• Congressional Research Service Report, "Costs and Benefits of Clear Skies: EPA's Analysis of Multi-Pollutant Clean Air Bills" (November 23, 2005)
  
• EPA Multi-Pollutant Analysis and Technical Support Documents (October 27, 2005)
  
• S. 1772, Senator Inhofe’s “Gasoline PRICE Act” (September 26, 2005)
  
• Energy Policy Act of 2005 (July 29, 2005)
  
• Clean Smokestacks Act of 2005 (March 16, 2005)
  Introduced by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA).
• Substitute to S.131 - The Clear Skies Act of 2005 (February 15, 2005)
  
• Chairman’s Mark of S. 131 – The Clear Skies Act of 2005 (February 11, 2005)
  
• Senate EPW Committee Legislative Hearing on S. 131, the “Clear Skies Act of 2005” (February 2, 2005)
  
• Senate EPW Clean Air Subcommittee Hearing on the Need for Multi-Emissions Legislation (January 26, 2005)
  
• Senator Voinovich’s Analysis of STAPPA/ALAPCO’s 1/26/05 Testimony on the Need for Multi-Pollutant Legislation before the Senate EPW Committee (January 26, 2005)
  
• S. 150, the “Clean Power Act of 2005” (January 25, 2005)
  Multi-pollutant legislation introduced by Senator Jim Jeffords (I-VT), Ranking Member of the Senate EPW Committee, Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) and Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT). We will post legislative language as soon as it is available.
• S. 131, the “Clear Skies Act of 2005” (January 24, 2005)
  
• The National Commission on Energy Policy’s “Ending the Energy Stalemate: A Bipartisan Strategy to Meet America’s Energy Challenges” (December 8, 2004)
  
• Presentations from EPA's Air Innovations Conference (August 30, 2004)
  
• Multi-Pollutant Strategy Position of the Ozone Transport Commission (January 27, 2004)
  
• Southern Governors' Letter to President Bush Urging a Strong National Multi-Pollutant Strategy for Power Plants (June 24, 2002)
  
• North Carolina's Clean Smokestacks Law (June 20, 2002)
  
• U.S. Conference of Mayors Resolution on Clean Air and Utilities (June 17, 2002)
  

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