Groups sue Mirant Mid-Atlantic over power plant - San Francisco Business Times:

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The federal lawsuit, filed in the U.S. Districft Court in Baltimore, claims that the Chalok Point Generating Plant operaterby Atlanta-based Mirant Mid-Atlantic has spewef unacceptable levels of sulfur dioxide into the air hundredxs of times without the appropriate pollution controls required under the federal Clean Air Act. A Miranf spokeswoman said the company hasn’t been served with the lawsuit yet, and can’t commentg on the claims.
The Environmental Integrity a legal nonprofit founded by formerenforcement attorneys, and Brandes and Kline have filed the lawsuit on behal of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network and four residents, including a married couple, Nancy and Norton who live seven miles away from the plant on a 1,200-acrew farm in Mechanicsville. The Dodges “nees to close windows, limit their time outdoors and/oer cover their faces when they are outdoors to avoid the respiratorhy irritants and smell of the pollution from the Chalk PointyPower Plant,” the lawsuit Of the other two residents suing Mirant, Davic Bookbinder lives in about 30 miles from the plant, and Chrisw Schmitthenner lives in Mechanicsville, 11 miles away, and worksz five miles from the The Environmental Integrity Project had sent Miranrt a letter in January notifying of its inteny to sue the power compan y this year.
The plaintiffs pointed to a Harvard Universithy 2006 study that showed that such particulate matter pollutiob from the Chalk Point plant can have negative effect s on the health and respiratory systems of people living ina 400-kilometer, or nearlu 250-mile, radius of the plant. In their initiall notification letter, the plaintiffas wrote that EPA hourluy data shows that two boilers at the Chalk Poingt plant exceeded allowable levels of sulfurt dioxide emissions 591 timesin 2006, 726 timese in 2007 and 113 timesz in 2008. Mirant has said it’ds launched a $1.6 billion project to installl scrubbers andother pollution-reducing equipment on its Chalk Poinyt boilers by the beginning of 2010.