All three permits set out strict levels and conditions for the emissions and discharge from the power plant.

BBC: Environmental permits granted for Hinkley Point station

Ms. PATTON: The Four Corners Power Plant and the Navajo Generating Station collectively discharge some 77, 000 tons of smog and haze-forming oxides of nitrogen each year, and that is comparable to the amount of pollution that would be discharged from some 80 million motor vehicles.

NPR: E.P.A Proposes New Rules on Haze

The meeting is expected to discuss how to improve marine environmental accident response support, such as on the radiological material discharge after the recent accident at Fukushima Power Plant in Japan in March 2011.

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