EPA issues new rule to reduce emissions - The Hill's E2-Wire

EPA issues new rule to reduce emissions - The Hill's E2-Wire:

By Darren Goode - 07/06/10 07:43 PM ET

"The draft, which could have implications for efforts in the Senate to reduce carbon and other emissions from power plants, would begin reducing emissions in 31 states and the District of Columbia quickly — in 2012.

It would affect coal-fired and all other fossil fuel-powered electric utilities, and the EPA says it would cut sulfur dioxide emissions by 71 percent and nitrogen oxide by 52 percent over 2005 levels.

The regulation’s price tag is an estimated $2.8 billion in 2014. But EPA officials say it would save between $120 billion and $290 billion in annual health and welfare benefits the same year and help prevent up to 36,000 deaths."