EPA/MPCA Regulation

Just because an incinerator – using biomass, garbage, coal or any other solid fuel – meets the current EPA guidelines for emissions does NOT mean that those emissions are safe to humans or to the environment at large.

• EPA to Impose First Greenhouse Gas Limits on Power Plants, Washington Post, March 26, 2012.
• EPA Dioxin Assessment Raises Red Flag for Some, CNN Health.com, February 22, 2012.
• EPA Health Report on Dioxin Released After 27 Years of Delays, Center for Health, Environment & Justice, February 17, 2012.
• New EPA Mercury Rules are a Bona Fide Big Deal, grist, December 21, 2011.
• Polluters Fined, Must Fix Problems, Star Tribune, October 1, 2011.
• Obama Wins Cap and Trade War to Cut Ozone Pollution, Clean Technica, September 18, 2011.
• Lawsuit Targets Carbon-Pollution Exemption for Wood-Burning Power Plants, The Institute for Southern Studies, August 16, 2011.
• Federal Agencies Sign Environmental Justice Memorandum of Understanding, EPA, August 4, 2011.
• New Study Uncovers Additional $10.5 Billion in Annual Benefits & Nearly 80,000 More Jobs from EPA’s Proposed Utility Toxics Rule, HazMatManagement, July 14, 2011. 
• EPA Reduces Smokestack Pollution, Protecting Americans’ Health from Soot & Smog, EPA, July 7, 2011.
• EPA Proposes New Emission Standards for Power Plants, NYTimes, March 16, 2011.
• Clean Air Act Saves Lives AND Money, EPA-Office of Air & Radiation, March 2011.
• EPA Updates National Air Toxics Assessment, epa.gov, March 11, 2011.
• EPA Establishes Clean Air Act Standards for Boilers & Incinerators, epa.gov, February 23, 2011.  Comments by Biomass Busters, February 26, 2011.
• Enviro Group, EPA Settle Air Pollution Case, Center for Biological Diversity, February 14, 2011.
• Putting EPA’s Announcement on CO2 from Power Plants in Context, grist, December 23, 2010.
• Center for Biological Diversity Files Petition to Correct EPA Claim that Biomass is Carbon Neutral, examiner.com, July 28, 2010.
• EPA Sets Stronger National Air Quality Standard for Sulfur Dioxide; First New S02 Standard in 40 Years Will Improve Air Quality for Millions, EPA, June 3, 2010.
• U.S. EPA Regulates Greenhouse Gases for Large Industrial Sources, Environment News Service, May 14, 2010.
• Emissions Standards for Boilers & Process Heaters & Commercial & Industrial Solid Waste Incinerators, EPA, April 29, 2010.  For comments by Alan Muller, Energy & Environmental Consultant, click here.
• EPA to Cut Polluters More Slack, Clean Skies Network, March 9, 2010.
• 3M Haz Waste Incinerator – Some Thought-Provoking Facts Not Covered in the Media, by Alan Muller, March 16, 2010.
• 3M Hopes to Allay Community Concern Over Cottage Grove Incinerator, Pioneer Press, March 15, 2010.
• Cottage Grove Officials Burning Over 3M Plans, Star Tribune, March 7, 2010.
• Idaho, Four Other Western States Named in EPA Lawsuit, Idaho Statesman, February 1, 2010.
• Everything You Always Wanted to Know about EPA Greenhouse Gas Regulations but were Afraid to Ask
• Shortcomings of Dioxin Monitoring
• “EPA Region 5 Reaches Agreement with Perham Facility”
• “EPA’s New Pesticide Testing is Outdated, Crude”
• Clean Water Laws are Neglected, at a Cost in Suffering, NYTimes, 9/13/09.
• “Lawsuit Challenges Bush-Era Exemptions on Burning Waste”
• “EPA a Failure on Chemicals, Audit Finds”
• “EPA Overstating Enforcement Record”
• “GAO Questions EPA Plan to Ease Farms’ Emissions Rules”
• “EPA Lets Electronic Waste Flow Freely, GAO Report Says”
• “Industry Eyes Upcoming ‘Waste’ Definition to Boost Energy Supply”
• “EPA Ignored Advisers’ Guidance”
• “Bush’s EPA Is Pursuing Fewer Polluters”
• “Hundreds of EPA Scientists Report Political Interference Over Last Five Years”
• “White House Pressured EPA”