Calif. Power Plant Regs Changed to Save Marine Life
Amy Standen
NPR, Morning Edition
05/05/2010
State water regulators in California have ordered coastal power plants to begin phasing out a cooling process that is blamed for killing billions of aquatic organisms every year. "Once-through" cooling is the controversial practice in which power plants suck up vast amounts of water from a nearby ocean or river, and use it to cool their equipment. Environmentalists have been complaining about it for decades.
