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Sierra Club sues DeYoung power plant
in Holland over emissions
by Ken Kolker | The Grand Rapids Press
Monday December 15, 2008, 3:54 PM
HOLLAND -- The city's James DeYoung coal-fired power plant is
spewing too much soot and smog-forming pollution and should be forced
to clean up its emissions, according to a federal lawsuit filed today
by an environmental group.
Sierra Club, which is fighting Holland's planned expansion of the
plant, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids on
Monday, alleging the plant has violated the federal Clean Air Act.
It claims the Holland Board of Public Works, which operates the
plant, has modified it over 40 years to keep it operating without
installing required modern controls that would limit emissions of
carbon dioxide, sulfur oxide, nitrogen oxide and other pollutants....."
HOLLAND -- The city's James DeYoung coal-fired power plant is spewing too much soot and smog-forming pollution and should be forced to clean up its emissions, according to a federal lawsuit filed today by an environmental group.
Sierra Club, which is fighting Holland's planned expansion of the plant, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids on Monday, alleging the plant has violated the federal Clean Air Act.
It claims the Holland Board of Public Works, which operates the
plant, has modified it over 40 years to keep it operating without
installing required modern controls that would limit emissions of
carbon dioxide, sulfur oxide, nitrogen oxide and other pollutants....."
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to put a halt to two logging operations....
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THE FOLLOWING GROUPS ARE LISTED AS THE PETITIONERS IN THIS SUIT:
DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE, NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, SIERRA CLUB,
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES, CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY,
JACKSON HOLE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE, FRIENDS OF THE CLEARWATER,
ALLIANCE FOR THE WILD ROCKIES , OREGON WILD, CASCADIA WILDLANDS PROJECT,
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