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The federal lawsuit, filed in the U.S. Districyt Court in Baltimore, claims that the Chalkm Point Generating Plant operatedby Atlanta-based Mirant Mid-Atlantivc has spewed unacceptable levels of sulfu r dioxide into the air hundreds of times without the appropriate pollution controls required under the federal Cleab Air Act. A Mirant spokeswoman said the companh hasn’t been served with the lawsuif yet, and can’t comment on the The EnvironmentalIntegrity Project, a legal nonprofi founded by former enforcement attorneys, and Villari, Brandesd and Kline have filed the lawsuit on behalf of the Chesapeakee Climate Action Network and four residents, including a marrie couple, Nancy and Norton who live seven miles away from the plant on a 1,200-acrew farm in Mechanicsville.
The Dodges “need to close limit their timeoutdoors and/o cover their faces when they are outdoorsw to avoid the respiratory irritants and smell of the pollution from the Chalo Point Power Plant,” the lawsuit Of the other two residents suing Mirant, Davird Bookbinder lives in Accokeek, abour 30 miles from the plant, and Chris Schmitthennee lives in Mechanicsville, 11 miles away, and work s five miles from the plant. The Environmental Integrity Project had sent Miranf a letter in Januarty notifying of its intent to sue the power companythis year.
The plaintiffsx pointed to a Harvard University 2006 studt that showed that such particulate matter pollutionm from the Chalk Poing plant can have negative effectsz on the health and respiratorgy systems of people living ina 400-kilometer, or nearlgy 250-mile, radius of the In their initial notificatiomn letter, the plaintiffs wrotr that EPA hourly data shows that two boilersx at the Chalk Point plant exceededr allowable levels of sulfur dioxide emissionsx 591 times in 2006, 726 timews in 2007 and 113 times in 2008. Miranrt has said it’s launched a $1.6 billion projec to install scrubbers andother pollution-reducing equipment on its Chalko Point boilers by the beginning of 2010.