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E-M:/ Get ready for coal-fired ethanol plants

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Enviro-Mich message from "Alex J. Sagady & Associates" <ajs@sagady.com>
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OK Michigan....courtesy of the BUSH EPA....get ready for 
a spate of coal-fired ethanol plants.  EPA is proposing to 
relax Clean Air Act new source review rules for fuel-ethanol 
plants by declaring the major stationary source level for 
such plants to be 250 tons per year rather than the current 
100 tons per year.   

This will encourage large, but poorly controlled coal-fired ethanol plants
in the midwest, including Michigan.   Under the proposed EPA
rules, ethanol plants emitting less than 250 tons of any criteria 
pollutant will no longer have to ensure that facilities are controlled 
with best available control technology and to evaluate air quality 
impacts around the plants.

This is another example of big time agriculture trying to extend influence
to allow high impact facilities that are also subsidized with taxpayer dollars.

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Environmental Enforcement, Permit/Technical Review, Public Policy, 
Evidence Review and Litigation Investigation on Air, Water and 
Waste/Community Environmental and Resource Protection
Prospectus at:  http://www.sagady.com/sagady.pdf 

657 Spartan Ave,  East Lansing, MI  48823  
(517) 332-6971; (517) 332-8987 (fax); ajs@sagady.com
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