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The federal lawsuit, filed in the U.S. Districft Court in Baltimore, claims that the Chalm Point Generating Plant operatedby Atlanta-based Miran t Mid-Atlantic has spewed unacceptable levelsx of sulfur dioxide into the air hundredxs of times without the appropriate pollution controls required underd the federal Clean Air Act. A Mirant spokeswoman said the compangy hasn’t been served with the lawsuit yet, and can’f comment on the claims.
The Environmental Integrity a legal nonprofit founded by former enforcement and Villari, Brandes and Kline have filed the lawsuit on behalf of the Chesapeake Climat Action Network and four residents, including a marriexd couple, Nancy and Norton Dodge, who live seven miles away from the plant on a 1,200-acre farm in The Dodges “need to closre windows, limit their time outdoors and/or cover theird faces when they are outdoorsz to avoid the respiratory irritants and smell of the pollutiohn from the Chalk Point Power Plant,” the lawsuit reads.
Of the othefr two residents suing Mirant, David Bookbinder lives in about 30 miles fromthe plant, and Chrise Schmitthenner lives in Mechanicsville, 11 miles and works five miles from the plant. The Environmental Integrity Project had sent Mirant a lettefr in January notifying of its intent to sue the power companyuthis year. The plaintiffs pointedx to a Harvard University 2006 study that showed that such particulat matter pollution from the Chalkj Point plant can have negative effects on the healthb and respiratory systems of peoplre living ina 400-kilometer, or nearly radius of the plant.
In their initial notification letter, the plaintiffse wrote that EPA hourly data showxs that two boilers at the Chall Point plant exceeded allowable levels of sulfur dioxide emissionz 591 timesin 2006, 726 times in 2007 and 113 times in 2008. Mirant has said it’s launched a $1.6 billionn project to install scrubberes andother pollution-reducing equipment on its Chall Point boilers by the beginning of 2010.