April 19, 2010 GASP and RRI Energy Reach Agreement on Lead Emissions from Cheswick Power Station This week GASP and RRI Energy finalized an agreement to address lead emissions from RRI's coal-fired Cheswick Power Station in Springdale, Pennsylvania. The negotiations were prompted after GASP, a number of residents living near the Cheswick Power Station, and students at Springdale High School expressed concern that a proposed permit amendment could result in increased lead emissions from the plant. Under the terms of the agreement, RRI will ask the Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD) to make several changes to RRI's permit to install a scrubber at the Cheswick facility. These changes will include a lower limit on permissible lead emissions, an increase in the frequency of stack testing for lead from every 5 years to every 2 years, and a requirement that RRI provide the monthly average lead content of coal combusted at the facility to ACHD. "We're pleased with the agreement," said Joe Osborne, GASP legal director. "We approached RRI with our concerns, and, to their credit, they worked with us to find a solution we could all be satisfied with. This agreement provides assurance that emissions of toxic lead will not increase as a result of the scrubber project." In addition to providing for no increase in lead emissions, the scrubber project should significantly reduce the Cheswick Plant's emissions of several pollutants, most notably sulfur dioxide and particulate matter.
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Read more: Valley News Dispatch: _Springdale power plant owner RRI Energy agrees to cap lead emissions _ (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1 103314712994&s=244&e=0017cpqG4_hvmjBui6DdhzEiANW4ZfzTeWA1aZ-1DmbyvWWqd8Xg8lz4AywSxDpaExpefIwFKFGSKQ2aO xt4wukLGCDvz7xERJ_pR1KhM4-I162-lMIzVLLWTxkIrXT7MyuWrRcO049GmWyyCvxo0pq-bZC-T ObJH39gY-Hl10QZSk=)
Pittsburgh Post Gazette: _Power plant to cap output of lead_ (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103314712994&s=244&e=0017cpqG4_hvmgZPL... ZXMuWOOceownaMDVlGQw499mkbyuqszA8-pdzGlJvjMl9JyVYStLXofXzuMIYWOrc3K5WgcWcRew NBDupViUrfPJBGwhfU2FFJqIIMgxnOq6KDr4SF1OJ2HDqV4pi)
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The Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP) is a non-profit citizens’ group in Southwestern Pennsylvania working for a healthy, sustainable environment. Founded in 1969, GASP has been a diligent watchdog, educator, litigator, and policy-maker on many environmental issues, with a focus on air quality in the Pittsburgh region. _Learn more about GASP_ (http://www.gasp-pgh.org/about-gasp) . Web-site: www.gasp-pgh.org