Today’s Good News: Power Company Pays $4.6 Billion For Violations Of Clean Air Act

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13 environmental organizations. 8 Eastern and Midwestern states. The EPA. All ganged up on American Electric Power (AEP) and forced the largest settlement ever, for pollution caused by AEP’s 25 coal-fired power plants.

Not so long ago people were saying, “Clean Air Act, we hardly knew ye.” This victory proves it is alive and well, and puts big polluters on notice that they can’t (always) get off scot-free.

The Columbus, Ohio-based AEP owns 25 coal-fired electric plants in the United States, and was the number one industrial emitter of carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide pollution in the country, based on 2004 data.

NRDC filed suit against AEP in 1999 under the Clean Air Act for violations at a number of its coal-fired electric power plants because AEP facilities had upgraded and increased smog and soot pollution without installing the pollution controls required by law.

Under the settlement, AEP agreed to undertake approximately $4.6 billion worth of pollution control measures at its existing plants over the next decade. The new pollution controls will reduce sulfur dioxide emissions by 79 percent and nitrogen oxide emissions by 69 percent from the 16 plants covered by the settlement. The sulfur dioxide reduction is among the largest percentage decrease ever achieved in any settlement with coal-fired electric utilities.

AEP will also put $60 million towards projects to mitigate the impacts of their past illegal emissions, including the conversion of heavily-polluting trucks and barges to low-sulfur diesel fuel.

The company chose to settle the day before they were to go to trial on this. The battle took ten years.

Congratulations are in order to all these folks who worked together and held out one day longer than the company, especially the Hoosiers, making it work in a deep red state:

National Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Sierra Club

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maryland, and Rhode Island

Citizen Action Coalition of Indiana

Clean Air Council

Hoosier Environmental Council

Indiana Wildlife Federation

Izaak Walton League of America

League of Ohio Sportsmen

National Wildlife Federation

Ohio Citizen Action

Ohio Valley Environmental Council

U.S.PIRG

West Virginia Environmental Council.

Filed by Karen on October 9th, 2007 under Environment, Grassroots Organizing, State and Local Politics


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