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health protections from air pollution since passage of Clean Air Act version 2 in Malaysia?

Why should regulator impose more stricter standard for Malaysia Coal power plant operators before building new increase capacity by burning fossil fuel at

except from:

Prime Minister, Najib Razak tables RM 230 bil 10th Malaysia Plan - TheStar (June 10, 2010).

Under 52 high-impact projects have been identified for implementation which "Second: Two coal electricity generation plants at an estimated cost of RM 10 bil.",

Hazardousness material exhaled by Malaysian (location as table below: based on US EPA data) :

"In response to a court deadline, today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed the first-ever national standards for mercury, arsenic and other toxic air pollution from power plants. The new power plant mercury and air toxics standards – which eliminate 20 years of uncertainty across industry – would require many power plants to install widely available, proven pollution control technologies to cut harmful emissions of mercury, arsenic, chromium, nickel and acid gases, while preventing as many as 17,000 premature deaths and 11,000 heart attacks a year. The new proposed standards would also provide particular health benefits for children, preventing 120,000 cases of childhood asthma symptoms and about 11,000 fewer cases of acute bronchitis among children each year. The proposed standards would also avert more than 12,000 emergency room visits and hospital admissions and 850,000 fewer days of work missed due to illness." 

Economic Benefit Analysis:

"The proposed standards also ensure that public health and economic benefits far outweigh costs of implementation. EPA estimates that for every dollar spent to reduce pollution from power plants, the American public and American businesses will see up to $13 in health and economic benefits. The total health and economic benefits of this standard are estimated to be as much as $140 billion annually." 

via EPA,  03/16/2011

List of coal-fired plants in Malaysia

Plant	State	Coord.	MW	Type	Owner/operator
Jimah Power Station	Negri Sembilan at Lukut	2°35′11″N101°43′21″E	1,400	Thermal (2 ST)	Jimah Energy Ventures Sdn Bhd
Manjung Power Station	Perak at Manjung	4°9′44″N100°38′48″E	2,295	Thermal (3 ST)	TNB Janamanjung Sdn Bhd
PPLS Power Generation Plant	Sarawak in Kuching		110	Thermal (2 units)	PPLS Power Generation, a subsidiary of Sarawak Energy Berhad
Sejingkat Power Corporation Plant	Sarawak at Kuching		100	Thermal	Sejingkat Power Corporation Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary ofSarawak Energy Berhad
Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Power Station	Selangor at Kapar	3°7′1″N101°19′1″E	2,420	Thermal (6 ST), open cycle (2 GT), natural gas and coal with oil backup	Kapar Energy Ventures Sdn Bhd
Tanjung Bin Power Station	Johor at Pontian	1°20′3″N103°32′55″E	2,100	Thermal (3 ST)	Tanjong Bin Power Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Malakoff

Note: ST - Steam Turbine unit(s).

Source: Wikipedia

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Japan Sendai Earthquake 8.9 Scala Richter

2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami (東北地方太平洋沖地震 Tōhoku Chihō Taiheiyō-oki Jishin[7]?, literally "Tōhoku region Pacific Ocean offshore earthquake"[FN 1]) was a 9.0 MW megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on Friday 11 March 2011.[2][4][8] The epicenter was reported to be 130 kilometers (81 mi) off the east coast of the Oshika Peninsula, Tōhoku, with the hypocenter at a depth of 32 km (20 mi).

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All my #praytojapan & other affected area in the regions.


- syawal.