Judge tosses majority of pollution complaints against Luminant
The government waited too long to act against all but one of eight pollution violations it says occurred at two East Texas power plants, a court in Dallas has ruled.
The U.S. Department of Justice sued Luminant Generation Co. in civil court, saying a Clean Air Act provision required the company to obtain new pollution permits after shutdowns to make changes to the Martin Lake Power Plant in Rusk County and the Big Brown Plant in Freestone County.
The shutdowns and plant modifications occurred February 2005 through March 2009, the lawsuit states.
On Friday, U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade tossed out all but the latest incident after attorneys for the power plants argued the five-year statute of limitations had passed when the Obama administration filed suit in August 2013.
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