Legislation and Regulations
There are numerous pieces of existing and proposed legislation and regulations at the national and state levels that we believe will have profound impacts on fossil fuel-fired facilities, specifically coal-fired facilities such as electric generating units (EGUs) and industrial boilers. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), power generation in the U.S. is responsible for 67% of sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions, 22% of oxides of nitrogen (NOx) emissions and 37% of mercury emissions released into the environment by human activity.
This section provides an overview of national and state legislation and regulatory drivers to provide further background of the current energy and environmental policy setting. While this is not a comprehensive overview of all legislation and regulations, it does provide information on some of the most applicable policies.
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