Maine moves to cut greenhouse gases
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Date: 06/20/04
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Saturday, June 19, 2004
Maine moves to cut greenhouse gases
AUGUSTA -- The Maine Board of Environmental Protection has approved
the first of many rules expected to pass in an ongoing effort to
reduce the statewide emission of greenhouse gases. The board on
Thursday voted in favor of a new requirement that paper mills, power
plants, and factories track greenhouse gas emissions and report the
data to the state Department of Environmental Protection.
Though the federal government does require reporting of air
pollutants, a handful of states, including New Jersey and Connecticut,
require businesses to track greenhouse gases.
Maine's rule will impose stricter reporting requirements for a long
list of federally regulated air pollutants. Emissions of such
substances as ammonia, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and
several other greenhouse gases will have to be reported beginning July
1, 2005.
With the rule in place, the environmental department will start
collecting accurate data on Maine's contribution to global climate
change to eventually use in building incentive programs for reducing
greenhouse gases, said Sue Jones of the Natural Resources Council of
Maine, Maine's largest environmental lobby.
"We need to charge in and start gathering this data," said board
member Henry Hilton of Starks.
The law, which was approved by legislators last year, also set up a
plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the state.
During the meeting, the environmental board also approved new
restrictions on the use of solvents, requiring a switch to products
that do not easily evaporate.
The board held a public hearing on a proposed rule banning the sale of
household products from cosmetics to cleaning supplies with high
levels of volatile organic compounds, chemicals that evaporate easily
and contribute to the formation of ground-level ozone.
The rule is similar to laws on the books in California, New York,
Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware.
The new rule should cost the average Maine consumer no more than 50
cents per year, said environmental department spokeswoman Andrea Lani.
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