Here’s yet another lawsuit trying to stop another dirty, dirty coal-fired power plant from being built. This one’s planned for Florence County, on the banks of a river whose fish already have high mercury levels. Check it out:
A lawsuit filed today by the Southern Environmental Law Center on behalf of state and national advocacy groups claims that South Carolina’s environmental agency illegally permitted an unneeded coal-fired power plant on the Great Pee Dee River that would emit 31 times more toxic mercury than the legal limit and millions of tons of greenhouse gases. – Environment News Service
That’s not counting the effects of the potential plant on air quality, either:
“The proposed plant would have a significant negative impact on air quality and increase mercury pollution. The plant would emit the equivalent of 2.3 million cars in carbon dioxide yearly, and nearly 15 million cars’ worth of particulate matter,” the governor said in a statement. [same source]
