Government Sues Kentucky Power Plants

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Wed, Jan. 28, 2004

Government Sues Kentucky Power Plants
JOHN HEILPRIN
Associated Press

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department sued a not-for-profit Kentucky electric utility Wednesday, alleging it illegally increased air pollution at two of its three coal-fired power plants.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Lexington, Ky., says the East Kentucky Power Cooperative should have added new pollution control equipment when it modified the plants to produce more power by burning more coal.

The Bush administration last October rewrote regulations to let operators upgrade boilers, turbines and other major equipment in the name of routine maintenance without having to install state-of-the-art pollution controls.

A federal appeals court in December blocked the regulations until it rules on a suit by several states and cities claiming the change would damage the environment and public health.
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http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/fortwayne/news/local/7819499.htm

[lostnfound]

1. Guilty of being not-for-profit, perhaps?

Interesting choice of lawsuit target. Any guesses whether they'd be going after someone like Reliant with the same vigor??

I'm suspicious they are choosing their targets.

[tlcandie]

2. I'm sure they have some corporation buddy they would like to

see have this instead of this private company!! There is a method to their insanity and it is greed and lining first their pockets and then their friends and supporters.