Coal and Water in the Southwest
jfleck at inkstain (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
... to pump the CAP’s water with power to spare. But that source of cheap power is in jeopardy, as Susan Bitter Smith, head of the CAP’s board, argued in an op-ed over the weekend . The EPA is considering requiring new pollution control equipment, and the added cost of the price of carbon looms: If EPA is successful, it would increase the generating station’s costs by $600 million to...