FPL Energy is owned by FPL Group, one of the nation's largest power companies. A loophole has allowed Wyman and other older, dirty power plants to avoid the clean up required of all plants built in the last 23 years. In a preliminary vote June 1, the Maine Board of Environmental Protection voted 5-4 to support a rule which would require this outdated plant to reduce its NOx pollution to meet the same standards required of all power plants built since 1977. However, this issue will be considered again and FPL Energy is pulling out all the stops to convince the BEP to change its vote. Nowadays only patients needing intensive respiratory care are admitted to the hospital, so parents stay up all night doctoring sick kids, then try to work the next day.
Medications are expensive.
So are lost workdays. Cleaning up this pollution at its source in Yarmouth, is the best way to guarantee cleaner air for Maine citizens. People come from around the world to see the view from Cadillac Mountain, but it is frequently obscured by pollution produced upwind. We support the BEP's preliminary decision to reduce the pollution that originates in Yarmouth. Your recent vote to reject an 'air pollution credit trading scheme' demonstrated that you care about healthy air for Maine's citizens.