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In Harrisville, a male teenager with Post DUI pays $1070 more than a female teenager Post DUI. For Example, a Male Teenager Post DUI with a 2008 Buick Lucerne CXL in Harrisville, PA would pay $9030 on auto insurance while a female teenager POST DUI would pay $7984.
63 Harrisville Teenagers (7% of total population), 46% Male & 54% Female.
898 Harrisville Adults (100% of total population), 48% Men & 52% Women.
The typical insurance rate of $3045 that Harrisville Men pay varies from Slippery Rock University (-$42), Kennerdell (+$101), Grove City (-$14) and Pennsylvania (-$752). In Harrisville, married men pay $1320 more than married women.
248 Harrisville Seniors (27% of total population), 41% Senior Men & 59% Senior Women.
Harrisville seniors pay $1725 in insurance compared to Scrubgrass (+$40), Mineral (+$65), Wolf Creek (-$251) and Pennsylvania (-$426). In Harrisville, senior men pay $1193 less than senior women.
Acura TSX models such as Sport Wagon, Sport Wagon Tech, Tech & TSX cost nearly $2469 to $2442 in Harrisville compared to Acura MDX (+$630) Acura TL (-$40) & Acura RDX (+$540).
Acura ZDX insurance rate is $2088 in Harrisville. A 2008 Acura ZDX 2 Door 4WD's insurance costs in Harrisville is $2050 while nearby places such as Lackawannock, Lake Arthur Estates, Eau Claire and Mineral are costlier by $430, $700, $760 and $770 respectively whereas Slippery Rock is cheaper by $160.
Harrisville rates for Audi A7 3.0T Quattro is $2813 compared to Audi A6 (+$10) Audi Q5 (+$760) & Audi A5 (+$190).
Harrisville rates for BMW M3 is $3225 compared to BMW 3 series (+$390) BMW 6 series (-$190) & BMW Z series (+$260).
Harrisville rates for BMW 5 series models such as 528i, 535i, GT & 550i are about $2762 to $3136. The rates for a car such as 2011 BMW 550i 4 Door Sedan would be about $3090 which is about 2% of the total cost of a car.
Buick Lacrosse models such as Premium II, Leather, Premium I, Lacrosse & Touring cost approximately $2149 to $2188 in Harrisville. Insurance for a 2009 Buick Lacrosse Premium II 4 Door Sedan in Harrisville is $2110 while nearby places such as Chewton, Oil City, Victory and Ellwood City are costlier by $640, $680, $760 and $820 respectively whereas Butler is cheaper by $740.
Buick Regal insurance rate is $2152 in Harrisville. A 2011 Buick Regal 4 Door Sedan's insurance costs in Harrisville is $2120 and differs from close by regions such as Sharon (-$690), Wilmington (+$100), Oakland (+$190), Wheatland (+$640) and Utica (+$830).
Buick Enclave insurance rate is $1875 in Harrisville. The rates for a car such as 2011 Buick Enclave 4 Door 2WD Utility would be about $1850 which is about 7% of the total cost of a car.
Chevrolet Express models such as 3500 LS, 3500, 1500 LS & 1500 cost approximately $1717 to $1573 in Harrisville compared to Chevrolet Malibu (-$580) Chevrolet Corvette (-$1320) & Chevrolet Silverado (-$150).
Chevrolet Avalanche models such as LT, LS & LTZ cost about $1772 to $2033 in Harrisville. A 2011 Chevrolet Avalanche LTZ 4WD Utility Ethanol's insurance costs in Harrisville is $2000 is different from places such as Sharon (-$650), Cooperstown (+$610), Sandycreek (+$710), Woodland Heights (+$720) and Canal (+$780).
Dodge Avenger models such as R/T, SE & SXT cost nearly $1913 to $2269 in Harrisville compared to Dodge Challenger (-$60) Dodge Durango (+$450) & Dodge Charger (-$260).
Dodge Grand Caravan SXT insurance rate is $1739 in Harrisville. A 2008 Dodge Grand Caravan SXT 2WD 4 Door Van's insurance costs in Harrisville is $1710 & differs from close by regions such as Sharon (-$560), Evans City (+$280), Stoneboro (+$600), Foxburg (+$600) and Fredonia (+$670).
Harrisville rates for Ford Transit models such as Connect XLT & Connect XLT Premium are about $1759 to $1636 compared to Ford Explorer (+$20) Ford Focus (-$40) & Ford Fiesta (+$80).
Harrisville rates for Ford Flex models such as SE, SEL & Limited are around $1849 to $1926. A 2010 Ford Flex SEL 4WD 4 Door MPV's insurance costs in Harrisville is $1880 and differs from close by regions such as Wolf Creek (+$250), Otter Creek (+$500), Deer Creek (+$560), Chewton (+$570) and Canal (+$730).
Harrisville rates for GMC Yukon models such as XL 2500 SLT, SLT, XL 1500 SLE, SLE, Denali, XL Denali, XL 1500 SLT & Yukon are around $1997 to $2071 compared to GMC Acadia (-$0) GMC Terrain (+$120) & GMC Sierra (-$70).
Harrisville rates for Honda CR-V models such as EX & EX-L are roughly $2035 to $2233 compared to Honda Fit (+$520) Honda Insight (+$480) & Honda Pilot (+$350).
Honda Accord models such as EX & LX cost approximately $1902 to $2164 in Harrisville. A 2013 Honda Accord LX 4 Door Sedan Auto Trans's insurance costs in Harrisville is $2130 in contrast with nearby locations such as Shanor-Northvue (-$240), Slippery Rock (-$160), Evans City (+$350), Parker (+$690) and St. Petersburg (+$760).
Harrisville rates for Hyundai Veloster is $1782 compared to Hyundai Elantra (-$70) Hyundai Sonata (-$510) & Hyundai Equus (-$1120).
Harrisville rates for Jeep Patriot models such as Sport & Limited are approximately $1636 to $1752. The rates for a car such as 2012 Jeep Patriot Sport 2WD 4 Door Utility would be about $1610 which is about 3% of the total cost of a car.
Jeep Compass models such as Sport & Limited cost nearly $1713 to $1784 in Harrisville. Insurance for a 2012 Jeep Compass Limited 4WD 4 Door Utility in Harrisville is $1760 is different from close by places such as Butler (-$620), Sharon (-$570), Wilmington (+$80), Frizzleburg (+$570) and New Bedford (+$650).
Kia Rio models such as LX, 5-door LX, 5-door SX & SX cost nearly $1835 to $1873 in Harrisville compared to Kia Sportage (+$100) Kia Sorento (+$50) & Kia Forte (+$50).
Harrisville rates for Lexus GX 460 is $2059 compared to Lexus ES (-$560) Lexus LS (-$1060) & Lexus IS (-$650).
Lexus GX460 Premium insurance rate is $2083 in Harrisville. A 2012 Lexus GX460 Premium 4 Door Utility's insurance costs in Harrisville is $2050 while nearby places such as Portersville, Lake Arthur Estates, Frenchcreek and Ellwood City are costlier by $400, $700, $800 and $800 respectively whereas Sharon is cheaper by $670.
Harrisville rates for Lexus RX models such as 450h & 350 are nearly $2092 to $2487. Insurance for a 2010 Lexus RX 350 4 Door Utility in Harrisville is $2450 & varies from nearby places such as Coolspring (+$470), Bruin (+$860), St. Petersburg (+$880), Utica (+$960) and Reynolds Heights (+$960).
Harrisville rates for Lincoln MKX is $1949 compared to Lincoln MKT (+$780) Lincoln MKZ (+$390) & Lincoln Navigator (+$710).
Harrisville rates for Mazda Mazda2 is $1658 compared to Mazda Mazda5 (-$660) Mazda Mazda3i (-$230) & Mazda Mazdaspeed3 (-$310).
Nissan Murano models such as SL, SV, LE, CrossCabriolet & S cost roughly $2357 to $2241 in Harrisville compared to Nissan Altima (-$0) Nissan Sentra (+$340) & Nissan Rogue (+$430).
Harrisville rates for Toyota Prius models such as v, Plug-In hybrid, Prius & c are nearly $1713 to $1727 compared to Toyota 4Runner (-$480) Toyota Corolla (-$180) & Toyota Sequoia (-$160).
Volkswagen Touareg models such as TDI, Hybrid & Touareg cost approximately $2080 to $2002 in Harrisville compared to Volkswagen Tiguan (-$100) Volkswagen Golf (-$10) & Volkswagen GTI (-$190).
Harrisville rates for Volkswagen Jetta models such as S, SE, TDI, SEL & S Sport are approximately $1682 to $2143. The rates for a car such as 2010 Volkswagen Jetta S 4 Door Sedan would be about $1660 which is about 8% of the total cost of a car.


The Hurricane instantly upon its entry into RAF service became a landmark in aviation history as the RAF's first monoplane fighter and its first fighter to exceed 300 MPH in level flight. Also although seldom given the credit the Hurricane was the major factor in the epic victory over the German Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain during the summer of 1940.
The Battle of Britain i.e. the period of July through August 1940 saw Hurricanes in 29 squadrons fight in combat over England - more than all the other RAF fighter types put together. During this conflict the Hurricane, not the Spitfire, accounted for nearly 80% of aerial victories.
The parts arrive in an end opening box and are contained in a plastic sealed bag. A feature of most Sweet kits is the comic style box art, but this time we have a more serious painting on the box top.
The kit consists of twenty eight parts in grey plastic and the same again in clear plastic for each aircraft, now three of the parts on the clear sprue are for use on the grey plastic kit as these are the landing lights and canopy, all of which are included on the grey sprue if you don't want to have clear lights and canopy. Like most of the Sweet range you may have gathered that you get two kits in the box. One part you will not need is the Volks filter which is a carry on form this kit also being packaged as a 'Tropical' version. You also get three types of aerial mast and two types of spinner.
The clear parts are in the same bag as the rest but do not appear to have suffered for it. The parts are nicely moulded and are quite thin where required. Very fine panel lines, rivet detail and the doped linen do not appear to be overdone. When built the parts fit is an example of how it should be done, no filler is required anywhere.
The cockpit is bare but once the canopy has been fitted not much will be visible through the green house framing any way.
These consist of a single double sided glossy A4 sheet with the guide well laid over three steps. The instructions are in Japanese with English call outs only on the painting guide. On the reverse side of the sheet are the marking options in full colour with a very useful opposite profile of each aircraft on the reverse of the box.
There are five options in this set all for aces during the Battle of Britain. Colours are listed by name and FS numbers of some use is a paint chip for the camouflage colours printed on the side of the box.
The last photo shows what I did with this kit the first time round several years ago - now to try again!
A pleasure to build that goes together like a dream and with a choice of five different marking options.
Highs: Parts fit is excellent, no filler needed.
Verdict: Excellent moulding and goes together like a dream.


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People opposed to vaccinations and masking entered schools in and around Salmon Arm on Sept. 17 They also recently protested at the School District 83 office. (Martha Wickett/Salmon Arm Observer)
'Unacceptable': Protesters enter Shuswap schools, forcing hold and secure procedures
Teacher said he didn't feel safe for students or staff
School District 83 says heightened security measures are to be put in place after members of the public brought their political protests to the doorsteps of Shuswap schools.
On Friday, Sept. 17, parents, guardians and caregivers of students were sent an email by SD83 Superintendent Donna Kriger, explaining protesters opposed to masks and vaccinations had entered school facilities in and around Salmon Arm.
One of the facilities was South Canoe School.
Still shaken by the experience, Grade 7/8 teacher Yuri Melnychuk said a dozen protesters entered the school around noon. He explained the building was put on hold and secure, which he said essentially means classes don't go out into the hallways and doors are locked as if there's an invader on the campus.
"It was safe; however, it's not a feeling of safety when you're being told to do that because protesters have come into the building," said Melnychuk, who credited the school's principal, Jared King, for handling the incident in a positive manner, listening to what the protesters had to say and convincing them to leave the building.
"I did not feel safe that that had happened… I didn't feel safe for my students, I didn't feel safe for other students in the building," added Melnychuk.
According to school administration, those involved in the South Canoe protest were not parents of children currently attending the school.
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Kriger said what happened at the schools was unacceptable. She said students at schools under hold and secure could not leave or enter until the end of the school day.
The superintendent said beginning Monday, Sept. 20, doors to all schools will remain locked. She asked that parents/guardians/caregivers continue to notify the school office if they require access.
"SD83 will be working with the RCMP to ensure that these protests are kept from all district property. Please know that the intent of our actions is to maintain environments which are safe for all students and staff," said Kriger.
Melnychuk said he and other staff members at the school did not feel safe, that at the end of the school day people were still in state of shock, and that come Monday, a school district staff pro-development day, there would likely be a discussion about Friday's incident, about what's going to happen in those situations in the future.
Melnychuk noted that South Canoe is one of the schools where Interior Health has planned to hold a vaccination clinic. But that, he said, was arranged by the province and is not something the school has a say over.
"I believe that people have a right to protest and to have their voice heard; however, that's just not the way that you go about it," said Melnychuk. "It's not the way to have an open and honest discussion, an open and honest discourse about your views, when you're affecting children feeling safe and staff feeling safe and you're taking away the innocence of children. That's just plain not OK."
lachlan@saobserver.net
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The estimated cost to maintain and repair a Porsche Boxster ranges from $70 to $3842, with an average of $351.
The annual cost estimate to maintain a Porsche Boxster is approximately $504**, depending on your service provider.
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Real customer reviews from Porsche owners like you.
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Theodore was running late but was very polite and went right to work. He's very knowlegable about my 2002 Porsche Boxster, I would certainly use him again and highly recommend his services.


Originally Published: November 8, 2012 9:45 p.m.
Yavapai Big Brothers Big Sisters is in crisis. 100 Big Brothers, Big Sisters, Couples and Family matches are needed NOW!
Meet James, one of more than 200 boys and girls waiting to be matched. He is an adorable 5-year-old who likes to ride his bike, play outside and build with Legos. James has a vivid imagination and loves to be active. He loves to play superheroes and Transformers. James even likes to cook.
James lives with his grandmother and great-uncle, and would like a Big Brother to be active with and do "guy things" with. He would like to learn to play basketball, and do fun things like go camping, hiking and fishing. James' grandmother would like him to have a Big Brother so he can have another positive male role model in his life.
Right now, we are in dire need of volunteers as Bigs to mentor children, such as James. You don't have to change your life to change the life of a young person. Just a few hours a couple of times a month can change a boy or girl's life - fundamentally, for the better, forever. Yavapai County juvenile arrest rates confirm that kids matched with a "Big" are, on average, 40 percent less likely to get arrested compared to all other kids their age. Matched children are also less likely to skip a day of school and less likely to begin using illegal drugs and alcohol.
Want to do even more to help kids like James? Remember Yavapai Big Brothers Big Sisters for your Working Poor Arizona Tax Credit donation. Give up to $200 for an individual and $400 for a couple. It won't cost you a dime. And remember, you can give the full amount to both Big Brothers Big Sisters and the public schools, and get it all back! For more information, call 778-5135 or visit www.azbigs.org.


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Tournament design allows for spectator interest increase
Dmitry Dagaev, Alex Suzdaltsev 13 September 2015
Designing a tournament to keep each game or round as exciting as possible for spectators is, as you might imagine, complex and nuanced. Yet, most sporting tournaments use a basic 'knock-out' model, and have done for years. This column argues that tournament organisers ought to be more creative, and illustrates a model and examples suggesting that tournament organisers should not confine themselves to tradition. Choosing the proper scheme is a hard but feasible goal for tournament designers.
Why are sports organised as winner-take-all tournaments?
William Chan, Pascal Courty, Hao Li
Many major sporting competitions, including the Wimbledon tennis championship, Olympic boxing and even the Women's World Chess Championship, have a similar elimination structure. After each match the winner advances further while the loser leaves the tournament. In such competitions, the initial opponent pairings and the order of all remaining games are determined before the tournament by a procedure known as 'seeding'. There are, however, many different ways to seed the competitors in tournaments. Seeding is therefore a matter of policy. We discuss how the organisers may influence spectator demand by choosing optimal seeding.
The economic objective of tournament organisers
Empirical research establishes the special role of two characteristics of the teams participating in a match for the match attractiveness. The first one is the teams' quality and the second one is the difference between teams' quality (also known as 'competitive intensity'). Forrest and Simmons (2002) collected the results and betting odds for 872 matches played in the 1997-1998 season on Saturdays in the top three divisions of the English football league. They chose the number of points gained before the match as the proxy for the team quality and thus excluded several first match days from the dataset. The authors found that match attendance correlates positively with home team quality, whereas there is no significant relationship with away team quality. Also, a lower difference between the quality of the two teams generates higher spectator demand. Taking into consideration this result, policymakers may be interested in developing an optimal tournament format that maximises the sum of qualities and competitive intensities over all matches of the tournament. In the class of elimination tournaments with a fixed number of participants, seeding is an important policy mechanism for the organisers.
Seedings in elimination tournaments
Initially, seedings were introduced in order to protect the best teams from meeting each other at the early stages of a tournament by putting the favourites in different strands of the tournament bracket. As Wright (2014) put it, the reason for seeding "is clearly to ensure high competitive intensity, especially at the latter stages of a tournament". Such a design is justified because a loss of a strong, well-known team in the first rounds may reduce spectator interest in the whole tournament. However, by simply separating the favourites in the bracket, organisers make the first rounds very unbalanced. The essence of the optimisation problem is simply the trade-off between many unbalanced matches at the early stages and several unbalanced matches closer to the final. This dilemma has been studied in the literature mainly for a small number of participants (e.g. for four to eight participants). Vu (2010) constructs a revenue function that includes two terms reflecting quality and competitive intensity, though the construction is different from our own. He then simulates the parameters of the model, including the matrix of pairwise winning probabilities – for every realisation of parameters he conducts an exhaustive search and finds the optimal seeding in a tournament with eight players. The author finds that the traditional seeding (where the first seeded plays against the eighth, fourth against fifth, third against sixth, second against seventh, and the winners of the first and last two games play each other in the semi-finals) is optimal in 23% of cases and achieves, on average, more than 99% of the optimal value. No seeding turns out to be optimal more often than the traditional one.
In contrast, we provide results for an arbitrarily large number of participants.
Optimal seedings
We consider a standard knockout tournament with 2n teams, where n is the total number of rounds. The teams are strictly ranked by their strength (for example, in the European football club competitions the UEFA club ranking may be used). Without loss of generality, let Team 1 be the strongest, Team 2 be the second strongest, and so on. In our model, we start from the following two assumptions:
A stronger team always beats a weaker one;
Spectator interest in a single match depends positively and linearly on the strength of the teams involved and on the competitive intensity.
The organisers seek to maximise the overall spectator interest in watching the matches of the tournament.
Two groups of seedings play a special role in our analysis, as they turn out be the only possible solutions to the problem.
Close seedings are seedings such that under the first assumption, in every round any team faces an opponent closest to it in rank out of the participants remaining in the tournament. Hence in the first round the, Team 1 is paired with the Team 2, Team 3 with Team 4, and so on. Moreover, these pairs are placed within the bracket in such a way that in the second round Team 1 faces Team 3, Team 5 faces Team 7, and so on.
By contrast, distant seedings mean that, under our first assumption, a team from the strongest half of remaining teams meets a team from the weakest half of remaining teams in each match of the tournament. Figure 1 below shows the examples of a close and a distant seeding.
Figure 1. Close (left) and distant (right) seedings
We show that under our assumptions only two types of seedings – close seedings or distant seedings – can possibly maximise the objective function. The answer depends on the relative importance of the next round in comparison with current round (this parameter may be interpreted as profitability as the ticket price may vary across rounds). Close seedings are optimal when the importance of the next round is relatively low, while distant seedings are optimal when it is relatively high. These findings underscore why the existing popular and intuitive seeding procedure is optimal in the sense of spectator interest maximisation.
More seeding problems
Maximisation of revenues is important but not the only goal of tournament organisers. Sometimes the flaws and inaccuracies in the seeding procedures generate notable scandals that underline major seeding weaknesses.
One of the key problems is that the outcome of a tournament depends too much on the seeding. Back in 2005, UEFA made an irregular decision to admit Liverpool FC to the Champions League – a major international European football club tournament. The English side won the previous Champions League (2004/2005), but failed to qualify for the next Champions League (2005/2006) through the national championship. After long discussions, UEFA made the exceptional decision to allow Liverpool to defend the title. However, since the total number of participants of Champions League group stage is fixed, UEFA was forced to send Liverpool to a qualification tournament. This, in turn, shifted the `regular' seeding of the qualifiers because Liverpool had the best team coefficient among all participants of the qualifiers. The team that suffered most was Slavia Prague. In the right circumstances, they could have been the last seeded team in the third qualifying round and could have expected opponents ranging from Real Betis (the highest ranking) to Vеlerengen (the lowest ranking). However, Liverpool's admission moved Slavia to the unseeded pot, making it possible for them to be drawn against Liverpool themselves, Manchester United, Inter Milan or other stronger competitors. Slavia submitted an appeal on this decision, which was later rejected by UEFA. Though Slavia escaped the grand names during the draw and were paired with Anderlecht, even the Belgian side was thought to be stronger than any possible unseeded opponent. Slavia lost the tie and, thus, were eliminated from the Champions League.
Another problem often arising in elimination tournaments is the emergence of perverse incentives. In the 2012 Olympics badminton tournament, four women pairs were disqualified for "not using one's best efforts to win". Tournament rules suggested that before the elimination stage the pairs are reseeded according to the group stage results. However, an accidental loss of the tournament favourite in one of the group stage matches means that the favourite won't be the first-seeded in the play-offs. This shifts other pairs' incentives, making it profitable for them to lose the final group stage match in order to avoid the favourite in the play-off. The different nature of perverse incentives is outlined in the work of Baumann et al. (2010). Analysing data from the NCAA March Madness basketball tournaments, they found statistical evidence for violation of monotonicity of the team's expected outcome with respect to the seeding number.
Since seeding procedures are often not determined precisely, organisers may manipulate the seeding in their interests. One of the boxing qualifying tournaments for the 2012 Olympics was held in Azerbaijan. It appeared that all nine participating Azerbaijani sportsmen (in different weights) were seeded among the top eight boxers that simplified their tournament path substantially. The interesting part of the story is that some of them were seeded despite a relatively low world ranking. The International Boxing Association (AIBA) was forced to give the clarifications on the seeding procedures, which appeared to be highly controversial.
These examples illustrate that tournament organisers should not confine themselves to demand maximisation. Choosing the proper scheme is a hard but feasible goal for tournament designers.
Baumann, R, V A Matheson and C Howe (2010), "Anomalies in tournament design: the madness of March madness", Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports 6(2).
Dagaev, D, A Suzdaltsev (2015), "Seeding, Competitive Intensity and Quality in Knock-Out Tournaments", Higher School of Economics Research Paper WP BRP 91/EC/2015, available at SSRN.
Forrest, D, R Simmons (2002), "Outcome uncertainty and attendance demand in sport: the case of English soccer", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D: The Statistician 51, Part 2. 229–241.
Vu, T D (2010), "Knockout tournament design: a computational approach", PhD dissertation, Stanford University, Department of Computer Science.
Wright M (2014), "OR analysis of sporting rules – A survey", European Journal of Operational Research 232: 1–8.
Topics: Frontiers of economic research
Tags: sport, Football, tournaments, sports
Dmitry Dagaev
Associate Professor, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Alex Suzdaltsev
PhD student, Stanford Graduate School of Business


Individuals are now using social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter to warn others of DUI checkpoint locations and thwart police efforts to catch suspected drunk drivers. People are aware that police officers often set up checkpoint areas to catch people who are breaking the law at peak times due to the frequency of events. Now people have found a way to circumvent getting these tickets or being arrested by reading their friends' posts on Facebook and Twitter.
Police are known for being at certain checkpoints on Friday and Saturday nights, on New Years, and even parking in winery driveways to make sure and catch those who might be venturing out unsafely. Nowadays, all of these locations have stopped working because of the warnings people have been posting to their respective social media venues. Police at first were very interested that people are trying to help others by warning them in the first place!
Even though police have been working to work around the situation, DUI's are still administered like always. It's not about getting caught, it's about staying safe!


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New EPA Rule Keeps Power Plants Operating in Pennsylvania and West Virginia
By H. Sterling Burnett
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued a new rule covering acid gas emissions from a few small power plants that reduce waste left behind from mining operations by burning it to produce electricity.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a new rule on acid gas emissions from a few small power plants that reduce waste left behind from mining operations by burning it to produce electricity.
The new rule limits the reach of the 2012 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) to allow several small power plants in Pennsylvania and West Virginia that burn coal refuse as fuel to continue operating. The power plants covered by the new standard all burn low-quality, high-sulfur, coal waste abandoned from years of mining and electricity production in the region.
Under the Obama-era MATS standards, coal refuse plants were being forced to close because they were unable to meet national acid gas hazardous air pollutant emissions standards. EPA's April 9 rule creates a subcategory unique to such plants, applying less stringent emission standards for them.
Reducing Coal Waste
The Anthracite Region Independent Power Producers Association reports more than 5,000 abandoned mines were never reclaimed in Pennsylvania, with thousands more unreclaimed mines existing in West Virginia, leaving more than eight billion cubic yards of waste.
Burning coal refuse to produce energy became economically viable with the passage of the 1978 Public Utilities Regulatory Act, which moved to diversify the sources of electric power in the United States, in part by allowing the use of alternative sources of fuel, including burning coal refuse.
Recognizing more than 212 million tons of coal refuse have been removed in Pennsylvania alone since 1987, in 2016 Pennsylvania enacted the Coal Refuse Energy and Reclamation Tax Credit, providing a $4 per ton tax credit for coal refuse used to produce energy. The law was intended to keep coal refuse plants operating, saving local jobs and continuing to remove mine waste from the environment, in an increasingly competitive energy market in which natural gas is cheap and governments routinely subsidize renewable power sources.
In Pennsylvania's proposal to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, it has established an exemption for emissions from coal refuse power plants to allow them to continue to operate.
'Win, Win … Corrective Action'
This rule change was about protecting jobs, the environment, and domestic energy security, the EPA states in its press release announcing the new MATS subcategory.
"Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is taking corrective action to provide stability in the Pennsylvania and West Virginia economies," said EPA's press release. "These coal-refuse power plants are an important source of reliable energy, a key economic driver in the rural communities where they are located, and a proven method for turning waste into a usable source of power while at the same time remediating a longstanding environmental threat.
"By taking this action, EPA is addressing a matter left unresolved by the last administration that threatened to put the coal-refuse industry and the surrounding communities out of business," EPA said.
EPA's action solves a problem created by the Obama administration's overly broad MATS rule, said EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler in the agency's statement.
"While fixing this technical issue proved too complex or insignificant for the Obama-Biden Administration, President Trump has made clear that using environmental regulations to put our energy industry or rural communities out of business is not acceptable," Wheeler said. "By establishing this new sub-category, EPA has put in place achievable emissions standards that will save hundreds of jobs and preserve coal-refuse recycling operations that have become an important part of local environmental goals.
"Balancing environmental progress alongside economic prosperity is not only a win-win, but also how the Clean Air Act was designed to work," said Wheeler.
'Affordable Energy for American Families'
Federal and state officials from the affected region were quick to praise the Trump administration's decision to help keep the coal refuse plants operating.
EPA's decision is good for the economy and the nation's energy security, said Rep. John Joyce (R-PA), in a statement.
"Pennsylvania's energy economy relies on clean coal, and I appreciate the EPA's action to overturn these Obama-era regulations and support our local community, helping Pennsylvania families and provide relief for our local coal miners," said Joyce. "We know that America's energy grid security is dependent on a wide range of sources, and the coronavirus crisis has reinforced the importance of domestic energy production. The EPA is taking an important step to strengthen America's energy independence."
While helping keep energy prices low, EPA's new rule also promotes continued environmental restoration, said Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) in a statement.
"Thank you to the EPA for establishing a new emissions standard for coal-refuse power plants, which will help us turn more waste into affordable energy for American families," Kelly said. "Making it easier to remove coal refuse from Pennsylvania communities will not only produce energy, however.
"It will also allow landowners to create more parks, nature areas, and address other community needs," said Kelly. "Once again, the Trump administration took decisive action to end the Obama-era war on coal, and in doing so is helping coal country, and America, in more ways than one."
'An Environmental Win'
EPA's press release notes the new emission standards for this limited number of power plants will not increase air pollution and, historically, the land reclaimed after coal refuse is removed for use has often been redeveloped into parks, nature areas and trails, or put to back into commercial or public use.
Generating energy with coal waste solves a longstanding environmental problem, said Austin Caperton, cabinet secretary with West Virginia's Department of Environmental Protection in a statement.
"This action by the administration exemplifies putting into action things that actually make environmental sense," said Caperton. "By creating this subcategory, the EPA has recognized that we can turn an environmental problem, old coal refuse piles, into an environmental win.
"While not increasing emissions at these small generating plants, we will create low-cost energy and place unusable material in an environmentally sound and permitted area. Imagine that," Caperton said.
H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D. (hsburnett@heartland.org) is a senior fellow at The Heartland Institute.
Official Connections
Rep. John Joyce (R-PA): https://johnjoyce.house.gov/; https://johnjoyce.house.gov/zip-code-lookup?form=/contact/email-me
Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA): https://kelly.house.gov/; https://kelly.house.gov/contact-me/email-me
Sub-topics
Energy: Coal Energy: Electricity Environment: Air Quality
H. Sterling Burnett
H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D., is a Heartland senior fellow on environmental policy and the managing editor of Environment & Climate News.
hsburnett@heartland.org
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