Suit challenges coal-fired power plant

It’s called “Paradise,” and this Kentucky power plant dumps one helluva lot of carbon dioxide into the air. The Center for Biological Diversity, and allies, is challenging this giant mistake.

Here’s the Center’s news release:

“Since the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency still hadn’t ruled on our petition challenging a permit for one of the most polluting coal-fired power plants in the nation, the Center for Biological Diversity, the Sierra Club, and two Kentucky residents filed suit last Thursday. The Tennessee Valley Authority’s Paradise power plant in Kentucky, “TVA Paradise,” burns more than 7 million tons of coal and emits thousands of tons of air pollutants each year — pollutants the Environmental Protection Agency has deemed hazardous to human health and the environment. The plant also heavily contributes to greenhouse gas pollution: Last year, it spewed out more than 14 million tons of carbon dioxide.

It’s not surprising that plant’s operating permit, approved in 2007 by a state agency, fails to comply with pollutant-regulating requirements mandated by the Clean Air Act — but the Environmental Protection Agency apparently had no objections. Our petition and suit seek to overturn the permit so the ill-named plant is forced to get its act together.”