Groups sue Mirant Mid-Atlantic over power plant - Business First of Columbus:

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The federal lawsuit, filed in the U.S. Distric Court in Baltimore, claims that the Chalk Poinrt Generating Plant operatedby Atlanta-based Mirant Mid-Atlantic has spewee unacceptable levels of sulfur dioxide into the air hundredsw of times without the appropriate pollution controls required undet the federal Clean Air Act. A Mirant spokeswoma said the company hasn’t been served with the lawsuit yet, and can’r comment on the claims.
The Environmentaol Integrity Project, a legal nonprofit founded by formeerenforcement attorneys, and Villari, Brandeas and Kline have filed the lawsuitt on behalf of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network and four including a married couple, Nancy and Nortonm Dodge, who live seven miles away from the plant on a 1,200-acre farm in Mechanicsville. The Dodgee “need to close windows, limit their time outdoords and/or cover their faces when they are outdoores to avoid the respiratory irritants and smello of the pollution from the Chalki PointPower Plant,” the lawsuit Of the other two residents suintg Mirant, David Bookbinder lives in Accokeek, about 30 miles from the and Chris Schmitthenner lives in Mechanicsville, 11 miles and works five miles from the plant.
The Environmentalo Integrity Project had sent Mirant a letter in Januaryu notifying of its intentt to sue the power company this The plaintiffs pointed to a Harvard University 2006 studty that showed that such particulats matter pollution from the Chalk Poin t plant can have negative effects on the health and respiratory systems of people living in a ornearly 250-mile, radius of the In their initial notification letter, the plaintiffs wrotwe that EPA hourly data showds that two boilers at the Chalk Point plantr exceeded allowable levels of sulfur dioxide emissionsd 591 times in 726 times in 2007 and 113 times in 2008. Miranyt has said it’s launched a $1.
6 billiohn project to install scrubberw andother pollution-reducing equipmeng on its Chalk Point boilers by the beginnin of 2010.