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Hotel Booking Two coal-fired plants in Pennsylvania that have long spewed emissions across the Delaware River will shut down in four years under an agreement announced yesterday by New Jersey and Pennsylvania officials.

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Flight Booking "It's just a tremendous clean-air victory for the state, and the agreement represents the first time the state has negotiated a shutdown of a coal-fired plant outside the state," McGreevey said.

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Travel Agent Besides the shutdown, the deal calls for PPL to take steps to reduce emissions from its Martin's Creek facility, located across the river from Warren County, starting next year.

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Hotel Chicago Under the agreement, PPL would begin burning cleaner coal and fuel by May 2004 to lower sulfur dioxide emissions. That action would involve both coal units and two fuel oil plants at the site.

Online Booking In exchange for the emissions reductions and the plants' eventual shutdown, New Jersey agreed to withdraw its appeal of Pennsylvania's approval of PPL's natural gas power plant that is under construction near the coal-burning facility. That facility is scheduled to be completed next year.

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Hotel Reservation "This will eliminate literally thousands of tons of sulfur dioxide emissions that had a direct impact on New Jersey's air quality," Campbell said.

London Hotel Booking The coal burners at Martin's Creek emit more sulfur dioxide than any single source of the pollutant in New Jersey, DEP officials said.

Discount Travel "That plant is one of the oldest, dirtiest plants in the country. It really is the symbol of the worst of air pollution," said Jeff Tittle, director of the New Jersey chapter of Sierra Club.

Orlando Hotel As part of the deal, PPL reserved the right to repower the coal-fired plants with an alternate form of fuel, although James Seif, PPL's vice president for corporate services, said the utility has no concrete plans.

Booking Agency McGreevey said the state's action will serve as a model at a time when the federal government is relaxing Clean Air Act requirements so power plant owners do not have to finance expensive retrofits.

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New York Hotel Some Warren County residents have contended for years that pollutants from coal-burning facilities in Pennsylvania were contaminating the air and contributing to respiratory problems. Warren County Environmental Commission members blamed PPL and other coal burners for the county's high level of sulfur dioxide.

Online Travel Booking Studies by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency identified sulfur dioxide emissions from the Martin's Creek plant as the main cause of the poor air quality in Warren County, according to a DEP statement.

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Miami Hotel White Township resident Richard Kowal, whose 14-year-old son has asthma, was pleased by the plant's eventual shutdown. "Anytime you're cleaning up the air, making it better, is a step in the right direction," he said.

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Las Vegas Nevada Travel "We believe there never has been an ambient air quality problem for New Jersey," said John Slade, chief of the Pennsylvania's Division of Permits for the Bureau of Air Quality.

Las Vegas Nv Hotel Warren County officials hailed the agreement as a victory for the county.

Hotel Florence Booking Online George White, chairman of the Warren Northampton Regional Air Quality Advisory Panel, said Pennsylvania environmental officials treated opponents of the coal burners as if they were over-reacting -- a statement Slade disputed.

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Hilton Hotel "Nearly every New Jerseyan breathes unhealthy air for at least part of the year," he said.

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Star-Ledger - 5/30/2003

Topic: Air Pollution

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