Global Technologies Group, Inc. (GTGP)

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GTGP/J3 Offers Cost-Effective Alternative for Mercury Capturing and Control to Standard Industry Measures

With the EPA pushing for compliance with its new regulation stemming from the Clean Air Act of 1990, many U.S. utilities are rushing to find economical, reductive mercury emissions solutions. The new regulation, the Mercury and Air Toxic Standard (MATS), obligates U.S. utility compliance by a deadline of April 2015. Specifically, it requires all U.S.-based coal and oil-fired electric power plants generating 25 mega-watts and higher to reduce their mercury emissions by approximately 90%.

The EPA estimates the MATS rule will apply to around 1,400 units around the United States, constituting 1,100 coal-fired plants and 300 oil-fired plants at 600 power stations. It is intended to reduce the air emissions of heavy metals, including mercury, from all major U.S. power plants. These plants are the chief source of non-natural mercury emissions in the United States. Beginning in 2015, the EPA estimates the total annual cost of compliance to be around $10 billion in the United States.

As of September 2013, 31 U.S. states had no removal requirements while 17 had some form of reduction rules. Very few units in the U.S. today consistently limit their mercury emissions at or below the newly required rates. The MATS implementation is therefore exhibiting a strongly felt nationwide impact.
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