Delaware to require older power plants to cut emissions
 
Nov. 10

Delaware has begun a rulemaking process to reduce emissions from the state´s older coal- and oil-fired power plants.

The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control will develope a regulation that will require power plants between 25 and 51 years old to cut sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and mercury emissions.

The state will convene a work group of industry representatives and citizens in the next two months to begin drafting the proposed regulation. The DNREC hopes to have a final regulation ready for adoption by the fall of 2006.

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