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Issues: Oil & Energy
Risky Business
Hidden Environmental Liabilities of Power Plant Ownership
This is the full text and selected tables of NRDC's ranking of the "environmental liability" for all major U.S. utilities. It was published by the Natural Resources Defense Council in September 1996.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview: New Risks and Rewards in Power Generation
Chapter 2: Power Plant Pollution in the Spotlight
Chapter 3: Who Bears the Risks?
Chapter 4: The Environmental Liability Rankings: Phase I
Chapter 5: Updating and Expanding the Rankings
Chapter 6: What Power Suppliers Can Do to Reduce Environmental Regulatory Risks
Appendix
Report Credits and Acknowledgments
Tables
Table 1: Environmental Liability Rankings -- 60 Largest Utility Power Plant Owners
Table 2: Environmental Liability Rankings -- 119 Largest Utility Power Plant Owners
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