A 2006 local conditional use permit granted to Robinson Power Company, LLC (RPC) for the proposed construction of a 272-megawatt waste coal power plant was struck down by a unanimous…
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Three years after the coal ash spill in Kingston, TN., the United States has not yet established standards to curb the threat to public health and waterways posed by unstable…
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EIP and the Louisiana Bucket Brigade asked EPA to require Louisiana to step up monitoring and enforcement of air pollution standards, and to increase emission fees from the state’s largest…
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EIP has identified a total of 20 additional coal ash dump sites causing groundwater and soil contamination in 10 states – Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Nevada, South Carolina,…
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The dirtiest power plants in the nation continue to generate a disproportionate amount of toxic pollutants – including arsenic, chromium, hydrochloric acid, lead, mercury, nickel, and selenium – tracked in…
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U.S. coal-fired power plants continue to emit mercury into the air at remarkably high levels, even while other electric power companies and states have demonstrated that reductions of toxic emissions…
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EIP, on behalf of the Sierra Club, today sent a notice of intent to sue to Luminant Generation Company (formerly TXU) for over 20,000 violations of pollution standards at the…
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October 24, 2011 EIP recently filed comments on air pollution permits for three of the dirtiest coal-fired power plants in Texas and the nation—Big Brown, Monticello, and Martin Lake Steam…
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October 24, 2011 EIP and others comment that EPA’s proposed partial approval of Texas’s plan to implement health-based air quality standards for ozone and fine particulate matter fails to…
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October 13, 2011 Proposals for new or expanded waste-to-energy incinerators, which burn trash to create electricity, have been popping up in Maryland. Reports from these facilities show that they pollute…
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