Maryland, Seven Other States Split AEP Settlement Funds
Funds are used for the maintenance of clean air and Green Energy Projects
BALTIMORE, MD (April 8, 2008) - Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler announced today that the Maryland and seven other states share $ 24 million for energy efficiency and reducing air pollution as a result of a draft federal Clean Air Act With urbanization American Electric Power (AEP), Germany the greatest power of the company.
AEP repair Power Line: Photo of Arek Taylor (CC)
Each State is a procedure for determining how their share of the project money distributed. The projects are the setting up of “green” buildings, the installation of solar and other renewable energies, purchase pollution control technologies and energy efficiency investments and the economy .
In October 2007, a coalition of states and environmental groups, city of New York, and the federal government to agree with AEP on violations of the Clean Air Act. As part of the settlement, AEP, for the payment of eight countries a total of $ 24 million over the next five years to finance energy efficiency and reducing air pollution. The United States agreed on the allocation of funds in the following manner: Connecticut ($ 1.8 million), Maryland ($ 1.2m), Massachusetts ($ 3.1 million), New Hampshire ($ 1.2m ), in New Jersey ($ 4.2m), New York ($ 9.5m), Rhode Island ($ 1.2m), Vermont ($ 1.8m).
“The settlement today demonstrates the ability of States, the power of businesses liable for damages, they have for the environment and for our communities,” said Attorney General Gansler. “My office is jointly organized with Department of the Environment to develop targeted projects, reduce pollution and improve energy efficiency. ”
The funding announced today, in addition to the historic achievements of clean air, which results from the comparison with AEP, in October 2007. Urbanization, the company investing nearly $ 5 billion in the modernization of its fleet “Is” 16 power plants and reductions of more than 800000 tons per year, air pollution, the largest reduction of air pollution ever reached by a Clean Air Act implementation. Air pollution, emissions from these plants 16 to endanger the health of human beings, in relation to the increase in asthma and lung diseases, and are also the main contribution of acid rain, the badly damaged lakes, forests and wildlife.
Apart from the split in the eight countries, regulations, AEP is also to pay $ 15 million in civil penalties and $ 36 million to fund projects aimed at improving the various environmental compartments, including $ 3 million for reduce nitrogen pollution in the Chesapeake Bay.
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