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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October 13, 2011 HR 2273 authorizes design of new or expanded coal ash ponds based on groundwater arsenic concentrations five times higher than Safe Drinking Water Act limits. Design requirements…
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October 5, 2011 EIP’s Petition asks EPA to object to Luminant’s (formerly TXU) air pollution permit for the new coal-fired Sandow No. 5 power plant. The new coal-fired plant, located…
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September 16, 2011 EIP’s formal comments, filed on behalf of Houston Ship Channel area residents, details major flaws in BP’s application for an air pollution permit for the company’s Texas…
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September 13, 2011 Wall Street Journal article based on EIP analysis shows that coal interests paid $1.5 million in political contributions to House Speaker John Boehner in the first half…
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