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

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The federal lawsuit, filede in the U.S. Districty Court in Baltimore, claims that the Chaljk Point Generating Plant operatefdby Atlanta-based Mirant Mid-Atlantic has spewed unacceptable levels of sulfurd dioxide into the air hundreds of times without the appropriatre pollution controls required undet the federal Clean Air Act. A Mirant spokeswoma said the company hasn’t been served with the lawsuitg yet, and can’t comment on the The EnvironmentalIntegrity Project, a legal nonprofit foundedx by former enforcement attorneys, and Villari, Brandees and Kline have filed the lawsuif on behalf of the Chesapeake Climatde Action Network and four residents, including a married Nancy and Norton Dodge, who live seven miles away from the plantf on a 1,200-acre farm in Mechanicsville.
The Dodges “neex to close windows, limit their time outdoors and/or cover theitr faces when they are outdoors to avoifd the respiratory irritants and smell of the pollution from the Chalk Point Power thelawsuit reads. Of the othe two residents suing Mirant, David Bookbinde lives in Accokeek, about 30 milee from the plant, and Chris Schmitthenner lives in 11miles away, and works five milesz from the plant. The Environmental Integrity Project had sent Miranr a letter in January notifying of its intentg to sue the power companythis year.
The plaintiffs pointee to a Harvard University 2006 studyu that showed that such particulate matter pollutio n from the Chalk Point plant can have negative effectsa on the health and respiratory systems of peoples living in a ornearly 250-mile, radius of the plant. In theie initial notification letter, the plaintiffs wrote that EPA hourly data shows that two boilers at the Chal k Point plant exceeded allowable levels of sulfur dioxide emissions 591 timesin 2006, 726 times in 2007 and 113 timeds in 2008. Mirant has said it’s launched a $1.6 billiomn project to install scrubbers andother pollution-reducinv equipment on its Chalk Point boilers by the beginninb of 2010.