Luminant avoids lawsuit over new Texas coal plant - Reuters

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Source: Reuters

Luminant avoids lawsuit over new Texas coal plant
Tue Dec 9, 2008 8:35pm EST

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Luminant, the largest electric
generating company in Texas, said on Tuesday it has
reached an agreement with environmental groups to
avoid a lawsuit aimed at stopping construction of a
new coal-fired power plant.

Under the agreement with the Sierra Club and Public
Citizen, Luminant agreed to further restrict emissions
of mercury and other pollutants at the 1,600-megawatt
Oak Grove power plant now under construction in
Robertson County.

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Oak Grove was one of eight coal-fired power plants in
six states that Sierra Club warned it might sue back
in May because the group said the projects violated
the Clean Air Act.

The threatened suits followed a February ruling by a
federal appeals court that said the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency violated the Clean Air Act in not
setting mandatory cuts for mercury emissions of power
plants.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE4B907120081210

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