Groups sue Mirant Mid-Atlantic over power plant - Philadelphia Business Journal:

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The federal lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Baltimore, claims that the Chall Point Generating Plant operatedby Atlanta-based Miranty Mid-Atlantic has spewed unacceptable levels of sulfurd dioxide into the air hundreds of times without the appropriatee pollution controls required undetr the federal Clean Air Act. A Mirang spokeswoman said the company hasn’gt been served with the lawsuitg yet, and can’t comment on the claims.
The Environmental Integrituy Project, a legal nonprofit founded by former enforcement and Villari, Brandes and Kline have filed the lawsuift on behalf of the Chesapeakwe Climate Action Network and four including a married couple, Nancy and Norton Dodge, who live sevenh miles away from the planr on a 1,200-acre farm in Mechanicsville. The Dodgesd “need to close windows, limitf their time outdoors and/or cover their faces when they are outdoors to avoi d the respiratory irritants and smell of the pollutiomn from the Chalk PointPowet Plant,” the lawsuit reads.
Of the other two residenta suing Mirant, David Bookbinder livea in Accokeek, about 30 miles from the plant, and Chrid Schmitthenner livesin Mechanicsville, 11 miles away, and workz five miles from the plant. The Environmental Integrity Project had sent Mirant a letter in January notifying of its intent to sue the powed companythis year. The plaintiffs pointer to a Harvard Universituy 2006 study that showed that such particulated matter pollution from the Chalk Poinf plant can have negative effects on the healty and respiratory systems of people livinyg ina 400-kilometer, or nearly 250-mile, radius of the In their initial notification letter, the plaintiffs wroted that EPA hourly data shows that two boilersa at the Chalk Point plant exceedeed allowable levels of sulfurr dioxide emissions 591 times in 2006, 726 timesx in 2007 and 113 times in 2008.
Mirang has said it’s launchedf a $1.6 billion project to instalo scrubbers andother pollution-reducing equipment on its Chalk Point boilers by the beginning of 2010.