Position on The DEP s Proposed Power Plant Emission Standards CLF strongly supports the DEP s efforts to clean up the state s oldest and dirtiest power plants. But the regulations as proposed fall short of Governor Cellucci s pledges and his statements about his agreement with power plant owners.
Owners thus have some flexibility in meeting the facility-wide cap.
In fact, Connecticut has proposed to force old plants to clean up SO2 emissions partly by December 2001, and to a standard comparable to the Massachusetts one by December 2002 fully three years ahead of Massachusetts. To live up to the Governor s promise and the DEP s stated goals of leveling the playing field and cleaning up the air, the regulations should require full compliance no later than May 2003. Eliminate the loophole allowing averaging across facilities. This is not only unfair regulation, it is patently unjust to those who live near Brayton Point Station the largest pollution source in the state. The regulations should require firm, actual on-site emissions reductions.