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EPA Administrator Michael Leavitt Addresses Environmental Policy Committee of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce

Release Date: 12/15/2003
Contact Information: Carl Terry (404) 562-8325

Announces proposed Clean Air Quality Rules that will bring the most rapid and significant air quality improvement in more than a decade Michael Leavitt, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, will be in Atlanta on Tuesday, December 16, 2003 to address the Environmental Policy Committee of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. Administrator Leavitt will introduce a pair of innovative clean air regulations that will bring Georgians the most rapid and significant air quality improvement in more than a decade. Taken together, these new rules, which regulate sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and mercury (first ever for coal-fired power plants) represent the largest single industry investment in any clean air program in U.S. history. WHO: Michael Leavitt, EPA Administrator, Jimmy Palmer, EPA Regional Administrator, Lee Thomas, Chair of the Chamber's Environmental Policy Committee and Former EPA Administrator and Carol Couch, Director, Georgia Environmental Protection Division WHAT: Announcement of proposed Clean Air Quality Rules that will bring the most rapid and significant air quality improvement in more than a decade WHEN: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 at 2:15 P.M. WHERE: Metro-Atlanta Chamber of Commerce 235 Andrew Young International Boulevard NW Atlanta, Georgia (404) 880-9000