He said high priorities were protecting and restoring wetlands while limiting pollutants entering the bays using methods such as storm-water diversion.
US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy said the rules highlight President Barack Obama's commitment to addressing climate change, and limiting pollutants that compromise public health.
Planning documents can set out a doctrine (objectives for limiting pollutant emissions, objectives of modal shift for public transport, etc).
The state's program set a general limit on pollutants an entire facility can release.
Each new day seems to bring further proof that something must be done to limit the pollutants that originate in the coal-fired power plants of the Midwest and are carried by air currents into the Northeastern United States, where they contribute mightily to urban smog and acid rain.
Their cars are really a public health threat, putting out up to 40 times the legal limit of pollutants that cause asthma and other disease.
The Chinese government is working on the problem and recently announced new limits on pollutants along with a promise of increased monitoring.
Do we work on putting scrubbers on, or what?" Entergy backs a legislative remedy proposed by Senator Thomas R. Carper, Democrat of Delaware, that would set long-term limits on pollutants.
Ma Jun, of the Institute for Public and Environmental Affairs, said the government would take a big step forward if it set absolute limits on pollutants and resource consumption, rather than the incremental, economy-linked targets seen until now.
