Finally, Maine has a chance to breathe freely

08.07.11

Or downwind of his smoky wood stove. Environmental Safe keeping Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson announced Thursday the agency is moving forward with rigid new air pollution regulations for coal-burning power plants in 28 states. The measures are expected to preclude 14,000 to 36,000 lives a year, according to the American Lung Association. The new regulations will abbreviate sulfur dioxide emissions by 73 percent and nitrogen oxide by 54 percent. These are the pollutants that species fine-particle pollution and smog. Which has long been Maine's position beneath prevailing winds that span across America's industrial heartland and then dump toxins in our waterways and lungs. Finally, federal regulators are self-possessed to do something about it, and we hope Maine's elected officials will vigorously support them.

Source: Lewiston Sun Journal