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Leavitt to Address Air Pollution Control Technology Conference

Release Date: 08/27/2004
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***Media Alert***

Leavitt to Address Air Pollution Control Technology Conference

Contact: John Millett 202-564-7842 / millett.john@epa.gov


(Washington, D.C. - Aug. 27, 2004) EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt will keynote a power plant control technologies conference in Washington, D.C., Monday, Aug. 30. Leavitt’s remarks will focus on the facts, fiction and complexities of regulating mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants for the first time. A panel discussion on controlling mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants will follow.

The conference is jointly sponsored by EPA, the Electric Power Research Institute, the DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory, and the Air & Waste Management Association. Hundreds of technical experts from around the country are expected to attend this conference which covers the latest power plant control technologies, and showcases experience with state-of-the-art methods for reducing air emissions from fossil-fueled boilers.

Who: Mike Leavitt, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

What: EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt Keynote Speech

When: Monday, Aug. 30, 2004
8 a.m. EDT

Where: Omni Shoreham Hotel
2500 Calvert Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20008