Permit for Utah Coal Plan Blocked By Review Board
The EPA approval for a new power plant to be built in Utah has been shot down by an environmental review board late on Thursday. The Environmental Appeals Board, an independent group within the EPA, rejected an appeal made by the EPA’s Denver office to build the plant as they said it failed to come up with adequate methods of curbing their carbon dioxide output.
The Deseret Power company proposed to build the 110 mW coal power plant was proposed to be built on an Indian Reservation by the company. A environmental group that pushed for the EPA to have the review of the permit is pleased at the results. Though this ruling may not stop the building of this and other coal plants, it will cause them to be delayed. Any delays could cause plants to not open at all. The ruling also could lead to permits already issued to be reviewed and possibly be revoked if those plants are not meeting the standards in place.
This could mean huge things for the alternative energy market in this country. Not only does it prevent an additional dirty coal plant from being built, but it could allow a renewable energy plant, like solar, to be proposed in the area instead. The biggest problem in this country is that coal has become and continues to maintain a large majority of our energy. Many plants still fail to curb the amount of carbon dioxide they emit as well as polluting our environment with dangerous mercury. Let’s just hope that coal plants do in fact get delayed and maybe many get trashed in place of renewable energy.
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