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The federal lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in claims that the Chalk Point Generating Plan operatedby Atlanta-based Mirant Mid-Atlanticc has spewed unacceptable levels of sulfur dioxided into the air hundreds of times withoug the appropriate pollution controls required unded the federal Clean Air Act. A Mirant spokeswoman said the company hasn’t been served with the lawsuig yet, and can’t comment on the claims.
The Environmenta l Integrity Project, a legal nonprofit foundefd by formerenforcement attorneys, and Villari, Brandesx and Kline have filed the lawsuig on behalf of the Chesapeake Climat Action Network and four residents, including a marriec couple, Nancy and Norton Dodge, who live sevenb miles away from the plant on a 1,200-acre farm in The Dodges “need to closwe windows, limit their time outdoors and/o cover their faces when they are outdoorsz to avoid the respiratory irritants and smell of the pollution from the Chalok Point Power Plant,” the lawsuit reads.
Of the other two residentsd suing Mirant, David Bookbinder lives in Accokeek, abouf 30 miles from the plant, and Chris Schmitthenne r livesin Mechanicsville, 11 miles away, and workss five miles from the plant. The Environmental Integrituy Project had sent Mirant a letter in January notifying of its intenr to sue the power companythis year. The plaintiffss pointed to a Harvard University 2006 study that showed that such particulated matter pollution from the Chalk Point plant can have negative effects on the health and respiratoryh systems of people living ina 400-kilometer, or nearl y 250-mile, radius of the plant.
In theif initial notification letter, the plaintiffsd wrote that EPA hourly data shows that two boilerd at the Chalk Point plany exceeded allowable levels of sulfuer dioxide emissions 591 times in 726 times in 2007 and 113 timeswin 2008. Mirant has said it’s launchex a $1.6 billion project to install scrubbers andothert pollution-reducing equipment on its Chal k Point boilers by the beginning of 2010.