The Environmental Protection Agency has released a proposal to address haze concerns in national parks in Arkansas and Missouri that would require retrofitting six power plants in Arkansas with emission-control scrubbers to curb air pollution at a cost estimated to top $1 billion for utilities.
Public comment on the plan ends May 16, and a public hearing will be held April 16 at the Department of Environmental Quality’s headquarters at 5301 Northshore Drive in North Little Rock. Schedule: 9 – 11:30 am – presentation and public comment.
Please take the time to comment if you cannot come to the hearing. Submit your comment in favor of the plan by sending to this email address: R6AIR_ARHaze@epa.gov . Put this docket number in your subject line: EPA-R06-OAR-2015-0189.
Clean Air and better visibility in the Ozarks (the Buffalo River and Wildernesses, Caney Creek Wilderness and the Ouachitas where all of us love to recreate, is truly important now and into a cleaner, more sustainable energy future.