The state air quality permit for Plant Washington, a proposed 850 mega-watt coal-fired power plant in Sandersville, GA, does not meet national public health standards that even 50 year old coal-fired power plants already meet, according to a court challenge filed today by public interest groups. Read more in the press release.
Learn more about this case »A Georgia court rejected an air permit for a proposed coal-fired power plant, Plant Washington, after SELC and other organizations challenged it in court. The ruling found that the permit failed to set safe limits on pollution from the plant. More details are in the press release.
SELC and our partners in Georgia won a key legal victory when a judge ruled that two water permits necessary for the construction of the proposed 850-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Sandersville are legally flawed.
The administrative law judge found that the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) failed to follow proper procedure in evaluating the interbasin transfer of water from the Oconee River basin to the Ogeechee River basin. Power4Georgians - a consortium of electric cooperatives proposing the project - plans to take 13.5 million gallons a day from the Oconee, and return only 11 percent; the rest of the water will be consumed at the plant as steam or for other uses.
The judge also invalidated a water pollution permit, finding that EPD erred in allowing the facility to monitor and regulate pollution within the facility rather than at the point of discharge, as required by the Clean Water Act.
Read our press release here.