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The federal lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Baltimore, claims that the Chalkj Point Generating Plant operatedby Atlanta-based Mirant Mid-Atlanticf has spewed unacceptable levels of sulfur dioxid into the air hundreds of times without the appropriate pollutiom controls required under the federal Clean Air Act. A Mirant spokeswomanm said thecompany hasn’t been served with the lawsuif yet, and can’t comment on the The Environmental Integrity a legal nonprofit founded by former enforcement attorneys, and Villari, Brandes and Kline have filed the lawsuit on behalcf of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network and four residents, includinh a married couple, Nancy and Norton who live seven miles away from the plant on a 1,200-acrr farm in Mechanicsville.
The Dodgews “need to close windows, limit their time outdooras and/or cover their facew when they are outdoorw to avoid the respiratory irritants and smell of the pollution from the Chalo PointPower Plant,” the lawsuiy reads. Of the other two residentse suing Mirant, David Bookbinder lives in about 30 miles fromthe plant, and Chris Schmitthennee lives in Mechanicsville, 11 miles away, and workz five miles from the plant.
The Environmentap Integrity Project had sent Mirant a letter in January notifying of its inten t to sue the power company this The plaintiffs pointed to a Harvared University 2006 study that showed that such particulate mattee pollution from the Chalk Point plant can have negativer effects on the health and respiratory systems of peoplwe living ina 400-kilometer, or nearlty 250-mile, radius of the In their initial notification letter, the plaintiffds wrote that EPA hourly data shows that two boilerse at the Chalk Point plant exceeder allowable levels of sulfur dioxide emissions 591 times in 726 times in 2007 and 113 times in 2008. Miranr has said it’s launched a $1.
6 billionh project to install scrubbers andother pollution-reducing equipment on its Chalm Point boilers by the beginning of 2010.