Across the U.S. fossil fuel-fired power plants are releasing deadly smog, nitrogen oxides (NOx) and other forms of particle pollution at egregious and irresponsible levels.
These emissions don’t only impact communities on the fencelines of power-plants and industrial facilities, but can actually travel hundreds of miles across state lines! As this pollution travels, communities across the nation are exposed to health-harming particulates they’re not responsible for — resulting in emergency room visits, hospitalizations and even premature deaths. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
The EPA’s “Good Neighbor Rule” will slash cross state air pollution by:
Updating regulations that have already cleaned up some of the worst air pollution in the eastern U.S. for a decade;
Encouraging more power plants to invest in clean, affordable zero-emitting power — proven tools that will protect downwind states from deadly air pollution; and
Raising emissions standards, to ensure that power plants across the nation slash NOx pollution that threaten our health.
With new limits and new technologies in place we can protect the millions of Americans who are unknowingly subjected to dangerous pollution from coal plant smokestacks in upwind states — including communities of color and low wealth communities who are disproportionately affected by every source of pollution.
