The report further on the Environment
The emissions, which are now part of the nation’s oldest coal are wild animals live, even in the city continents, as well as threatening human health and destroying crops and fish in this country, according to a new study NWF.Based on these findings, NWF is launching a major campaign to alert the legislature and public opinion on the extent of the problem and urged to take measures to clean the dirty plants. Many older facilities still in operation, are exempt from regulations because the legislature, wrote the Clean Air Act, wrongly, that these bodies would be phased out of service because it is age.
Emissions from power plants are the main source of carbon dioxide and other polluting gases responsible for climate change, a threat to wildlife in the world. Kohlebefeuerten facilities also emit toxic mercury, poisons on wildlife and people over the food chain. And they contribute to acid rain and ozone, forests and toxicity of aquatic ecosystems.
Plants planned or built before 1977, by most standards of protection of the Clean Air Act, pollute up to 10 times higher than recent, more powerful facilities NWF.
NWF appealed to the Confederation and political authorities of the country to conclude such regulatory gaps, through stricter controls for mercury, carbon dioxide and other pollutants, and the promotion of clean energies like solar energy and wind. The campaign calls on citizens to let lawmakers want to know that the actions and measures for energy conservation in its own four walls.
Gefeuerte coal power plants are the only major source of air pollution and emissions of greenhouse gases in the USA.
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