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

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The federal lawsuit, filed in the U.S. Distric t Court in Baltimore, claims that the Chalk Pointy Generating Plant operatedby Atlanta-based Mirangt Mid-Atlantic has spewed unacceptable levels of sulfur dioxide into the air hundreds of times without the appropriate pollutiobn controls required under the federal Clean Air Act. A Mirangt spokeswoman said thecompany hasn’t been served with the lawsuift yet, and can’t comment on the The Environmental Integrity Project, a legal nonprofif founded by former enforcement attorneys, and Villari, Brandes and Klinse have filed the lawsuit on behaltf of the Chesapeake Climate Action Networm and four residents, including a married Nancy and Norton Dodge, who live sevem miles away from the plant on a 1,200-acre farm in The Dodges “need to close windows, limit their time outdoorsa and/or cover their faces when they are outdoors to avoid the respiratory irritants and smell of the pollution from the Chaljk Point Power Plant,” the lawsuit reads.
Of the otherr two residents suing Mirant, David Bookbindedr lives in Accokeek, about 30 miles from the plant, and Chriw Schmitthenner livesin Mechanicsville, 11 miles away, and works five miles from the plant. The Environmentak Integrity Project had sent Mirantr a letter in January notifying of its intenft to sue the power company this year. The plaintiffs pointed to a Harvard Universitgy 2006 study that showed that such particulate matte r pollution from the Chalk Point plant can have negative effects on the healthy and respiratory systems of people living in a ornearly 250-mile, radius of the In their initial notification letter, the plaintiffs wroter that EPA hourly data shows that two boiler at the Chalk Pointf plant exceeded allowable levels of sulfurr dioxide emissions 591 times in 2006, 726 times in 2007 and 113 times in 2008.
Mirant has said it’s launched a $1.6 billiob project to install scrubbers andotherf pollution-reducing equipment on its Chalk Pointg boilers by the beginning of 2010.