{"id":4073,"date":"2011-09-02T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T23:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?p=4073"},"modified":"2011-09-02T16:08:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T23:08:00","slug":"groups-appeal-port-angeles-biomass-power-air-permit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/groups-appeal-port-angeles-biomass-power-air-permit\/","title":{"rendered":"Groups Appeal Port Angeles Biomass Power Air Permit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from <strong>The Biomass Monitor <\/strong>by\u00a0<strong>Managing Editors: Rachel Smolker &amp; Meg Sheehan;\u00a0Editor &amp; Journalist: Josh Schlossberg<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;\"><strong>July 21, 2011\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobiomassburn.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">No Biomass Burn<\/a>\u00a0and six other environmental groups are appealing the air permit decision by the\u00a0<em>Olympic Region Clean Air Agency (ORCAA)<\/em>, charging that the agency colluded with\u00a0<em>Nippon Paper<\/em>\u00a0to grossly understate toxic pollution from a 20-megawatt biomass power proposal under construction in Port Angeles, Washington.<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;\">Carcinogenic formaldehyde from\u00a0<em>Nippon&#8217;s<\/em>\u00a0project would be emitted at rates nearly ninety times greater than\u00a0<em>ORCAA&#8217;s<\/em>\u00a0permit shows, according to analysis conducted by a nationally renowned air quality engineer hired by the appellants.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;\">Benzene, also a carcinogen, would be emitted at levels six times greater than reported levels, while VOC&#8217;s (volatile organic compounds) would be emitted in &#8220;substantially higher amounts&#8221; than the permit shows, according to Duff Badgley.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;\">If allowed to stand, the lower pollution estimates would let\u00a0<em>Nippon<\/em>\u00a0avoid more rigorous government regulations and more expensive and effective pollution controls.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Biomass Monitor by\u00a0Managing Editors: Rachel Smolker &amp; Meg Sheehan;\u00a0Editor &amp; Journalist: Josh Schlossberg July 21, 2011\u00a0\u00a0No Biomass Burn\u00a0and six other environmental groups are appealing the air permit decision by the\u00a0Olympic Region Clean Air Agency (ORCAA), charging that the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/groups-appeal-port-angeles-biomass-power-air-permit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4079,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions\/4079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}