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Archived Air Issues:
October 2006
August 2005
April 2004
November 2003
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Air Quality
On April 2nd staff lawyers filed the first-ever Clean Air Act
appeal of a permit for a new coal-fired power plant in WV on
behalf of Sierra Club, Trout Unlimited and the National Parks
Conservation Association. For the last twenty years West Virginia's
air regulatory program has enforced the state and federal Clean Air
Act with virtually no citizen monitoring. Industry has helped the
state design and implement its enforcement and permitting program.
In September 2003, the Center began an effort to track and monitor
the actions of the WVDEP. This effort includes participation in
regulation development, permit monitoring, and citizen enforcement
actions by 1) investigating West Virginia's fourteen coal fired
power plants' emission reports and opacity testing results to
evaluate compliance with state and federal clean air law; 2)
representing citizens of Appalachian communities in their struggle
against new coal fired power plants proposed in their communities,
most recently in the first-ever appeal of the Longview Power Plant
approved for Morgantown; 3) monitoring the development of West
Virginia's state implementation plan (SIP) for air quality
enforcement, regulation development, and permitting; and 4)
collaborating with existing environmental organizations and networks
to organize and educate concerned citizens to enhance public
involvement in the permitting process and to expand citizens'
ability to provide technical and legal comments on permits drafted
under Title V of the federal Clean Air Act.
News Flash
Case Settled
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click here to listen to a WV Public Radio story on the case (mp3,
~500kb)
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