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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowIndiana Utility Consumer Counselor David Stippler wants the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to lengthen its time frame for new rules on emissions from coal-fired power plants.
In a letter last week to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, Stippler says the three-year timetable threatens the safety and reliability of Indiana's power supply while ignoring the high cost of compliance. Indiana law allows power companies to recover environmental compliance costs through the rates they charge customers.
The letter cites new data from two independent regional transmission organizations that coordinate power flows in Indiana and neighboring states. It suggests that if utilities must eliminate many coal-fired units from service at the same time power plants are down for retrofitting to meet the deadlines, it could make the power grid vulnerable.
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