ApocaDocs: Indy utility plans $511M in power plant upgrades

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Posted Wed Jan 23 2013: from Associated Press:


	Indy utility plans $511M in power plant upgrades http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1358961865 An Indiana power company plans to spend more than a half-billion dollars to reduce its mercury emissions to comply with new federal regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency. Indianapolis Power & Light Co. said Tuesday the $511 million in upgrades at plants in Indianapolis and in Petersburg in southwestern Indiana are part of its effort to meet EPA rules designed to curb toxic emissions from oil- and coal-fired power plants, which are the largest remaining sources of manmade mercury in the environment. The EPA rules are expected to be fully implemented by 2016.

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Death by mercury might be more merciful than death by fossil-fuel fueled climate chaos.