Links

• CleanAirSourth.org: Southeastern Powerplant Cleanup Campaign
• Natural Resources Defense Council: A Responsible Energy Policy for the 21st Century
• Ohio PIRG: Clean Up the Filthy Four
• Sierra Club: Clean Air: Dirty Coal Power

Congressman Henry Waxman introduced the “Clean Smokestacks Act of 2001.” This bipartisan legislation was designed to finally clean up the nation’s most polluting, outdated power plants.

ClearTheAir, a web site sponsored by the National Campaign Against Dirty Power, provides comprehensive fact sheets explaining the Waxman / Boehlert “Clean Smokestacks Act” as well as an assortment of reports and fact sheets on air pollution and power plants, and the health and environmental impacts of air pollution.

The New Hampshire Clean Power Strategy considers eight problems (acid rain, fine particulate matter concentrations, ground level ozone concentrations, mercury and dioxin deposition, eutrophication and nitrification of surface waters, climate change, regional haze, and toxic air pollutant concentrations) to reduce air pollution from grand-fathered power plants.

For more information about coal-burning power plants, see the National Wildlife Federation’s report, “The Toll From Coal: Dirty Power Threatens Our Environment.”