In an article by Cynthia Beaudette is the following:
Seventy-three percent of sulfur dioxide emissions come from fossil fuel combustion at power plants, according to the EPA, with up to 20 percent coming from other industrial facilities
Those percentages are probably good for the whole country but that doesn't mean they are good for Muscatine.
This article was printed in both the Muscatine Journal and the Quad City Times.
The article states that high levels of sulfur dioxide have been an ongoing problem in Muscatine.
True.
So Republican, perhaps your question should be who is creating the air quality problems in Muscatine. If it is the sulfur dioxide problem that the EPA terms a 'health hazard', then who burns fossil fuels that create that problem? Is it MPW or GPC? Is GPC now burning coal?
Yes, GPC is burning coal. Have been for ages. If you look at north latitude 41 deg 23' 46.61" and west longitude 91 deg 03' 30.12" you will be directly over their distributions tower at the end of their coal conveyor from their barge unloader.
Or it is at coordinates 2310275.88 518111.58 if you use MAGIC.
The coal pile is only somewhat smaller than that at MPW.
You can also see one of their chimneys at north 41deg 23' 57.10 amd west 91 deg 03' 39.54". Another chimney is approximately 110 ft north east of this.
You also might wish to know that MPW has a scrubber on their largest unit which removes sulfur dioxide from the flue gas. I'm fairly certain GPC does not.
