U.S. Announces Clean Air Act Settlement with Santee Cooper; Co. Agrees to Reduce Almost 70,000 Tons of Pollutants Annually

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WASHINGTON, March 16, /U.S, Newswire/ -- The Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency, along with the State of South Carolina, today announced a major Clean Air Act settlement with the South Carolina Public Service Authority (Santee Cooper). The settlement resolves the federal government's claims that Santee Cooper violated the Clean Air Act New Source Review program at several of its plants by undertaking construction activities and increasing emissions of air pollution without installing required pollution controls. The settlement is expected to eliminate almost 70,000 tons of harmful air pollutants annually from four of Santee Cooper's existing coal-fired electricity generating plants in South Carolina.

Today's settlement is consistent with a series of cases pursued by the federal government to bring the coal-fired power plant industry into full compliance with the New Source Review requirements of the Clean Air Act. The agreement requires Santee Cooper to install state-of-the-art controls on more than 83 percent of its existing total coal-fired megawatt generating capacity. Each year coal-fired power plants account for nearly 70 percent of sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions and 30 percent of nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions nationwide.

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U.S. Announces Clean Air Act Settlement with Santee Cooper; Co. Agrees to Reduce Almost 70,000 Tons of Pollutants Annually

"Today's settlement again demonstrates this Administration's commitment to secure major pollution reductions from coal-fired power plants," said T...

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