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Clean Air Act Looms Over Coal Industry in Appalachia
Associated Press writer Mark Paxton notes the Clean Air Act of 1990 tightens sulfur dioxide rules on power plants, risking high-sulfur northern coal while southern fields may boom. Utilities face choices to install costly scrubbers, switch to low sulfur coal, or trade pollution allowances. West Virginia mirrors national tensions as regulators push toward 2.5 pounds per million Btu by 1995 and 1.2 by 2000, with shifts in Btu and sulfur content impacting Wyoming Kentucky and West Virginia coal.
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Huntington
W.va
David Branand
National Coal Association
Gary White
West Virginia
Midwest
Ohio Valley
Branand
Tilty
Sai
White
Biu
John Randolph
Virginia Center For Coal and Energy Research
Wyoming
Kentucky
Randolph
Central Appalachian