TAILIEUCHUNG - Toxic Powe: How Power Plants Contaminate Our Air and States

Research over the last 30 years confirms that air pollution causes adverse effects on community health and the environment and imposes a real cost on the community. Economic theory shows that for resources to be used and distributed efficiently, all costs and benefits of an activity need to be adequately considered. However, in many cases, the costs of air emissions are ‘external’ to the production and consumption decision- making processes, as they are imposed on the wider community rather than the polluter. The presence of external costs, or negative ‘externalities’, is a sign of ‘market failure’, and means that the. | July 2011 Toxic Power How Power Plants Contaminate Our Air and States NRDC The Earth s Best Defense Introduction The electric sector is the largest source of industrial stack emissions of toxic air pollution in the United States. In 2009 coal- and oil-fired power plants accounted for nearly 50 percent of all reported toxic pollution from industrial sources. The next largest sector chemical processing and manufacturing emitted less than one third of the electric sector s total. Power plants are the leading source of industrial toxic air pollution in 28 states and the District of Columbia. Exposure to toxic pollution from power plants including hydrochloric acid mercury and other metals is known or believed to contribute to or exacerbate a wide variety of health conditions including one or more of the following Asthma and other respiratory ailments Developmental disorders Neurological damage Birth defects Cancer and Premature mortality. This report analyzes publicly available data from Environmental Protection Agency s Toxics Release Inventory TRI . Facilities that release significant quantities of a wide variety of toxic chemicals must report these releases including industrial air emissions to TRI annually. These self-reported data reveal that power plants are largely responsible for contaminating our air with toxic chemicals. The Earth s Best Defense Sources EPA s Toxic Release Inventory 2009 data accessed June 2011 EPA s National Electric Energy Data System Database 2010 . The Toxic Twenty Power plants are the leading sources of toxic air pollution in all but four of the top 20 states by electric sector emissions. State Electric Sector Rank by In-State Toxic Air Pollution Total Industrial Toxic Air Pollution lbs Electric Sector Toxic Air Pollution lbs Electric Sector Contribution to State Toxic Air Pollution Status of State Mercury Regulations Ohio 1 68 863 474 44 545 704 65 Pennsylvania 1 50 527 280 41 459 532 82 Florida 1 49 039 948 33 442 431 68 .

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