The ten year saga of whether a New Jersey-based LS Power should be allowed to build the Longleaf Energy Station (Longleaf), a massive coal plant slated for construction in southwest Georgia, has ended with the company’s announcement that it will withdraw all requests for environmental permits for the facility. GreenLaw has been representing Friends of the Chattahooche and Sierra Club in a series of legal challenges to those permits that have culminated in the cancellation of the Longleaf coal plant.
January 5, 2009 - Dynegy, Inc., one of the nation’s main merchant coal energy producers, announced that it was pulling out of its agreement with New-Jersey-based LS Power to build the Longleaf Energy Station proposed for Early County, Georgia. LS Power, however, maintains that it will continue to seek the pollution permits necessary to construct the plant as planned.
June 30, 2008 – Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore issued a decision today effectively halting construction of the first coal-fired power plant proposed in Georgia in over 20 years. The decision overturns an administrative court’s ruling that affirmed the state Environmental Protection Division’s (EPD) decision to issue an air pollution permit for Dynegy’s Longleaf plant. In practical terms, Dynegy cannot begin construction of the plant unless it can obtain a valid permit from EPD that complies with the Court’s ruling. The Judge held that EPD must limit the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the plant, a decision that will have far-reaching implications nationwide; this is the first time since the April 2, 2007, Supreme Court decision finding that CO2 is a pollutant that a court has held that the Clean Air Act requires that CO2 from industrial sources be limited.
February 11, 2008 - Today environmental groups took the next steps to protect Georgians from the harmful air and global warming pollution that would be emitted by Dynegy’s proposed Longleaf coal-fired power plant. GreenLaw attorneys, representing the Friends of the Chattahoochee and the Sierra Club of Georgia, appealed a recent court decision affirming a permit Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division (EPD) granted to Dynegy/Longleaf to build a coal-fired power plant in southwest Georgia.
January 11, 2008 - First Coal-Fired Power Plant Approved in over Twenty Years in Georgia. Read more on the OSAH Decision on the Dynegy Longleaf Air Pollution Permit.
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