Friends of the Chattahooche v. Couch

ELR Citation: ELR 20159
No(s). 2008 CV 146398 (Ga. Sup. Ct. Jun 30, 2008)

A Georgia court vacated a state air pollution permit allowing an energy company to construct and operate a 1,200 megawatt coal-fired power plant. Because there was no effort to identify, evaluate, or apply available technologies that would control carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, and because the perm...