Company serving Westerville also will pay fine, fund energy efficiency
COLUMBUS — “American Municipal Power will shut down its Richard H. Gorsuch power station along the Ohio River near Marietta by the end of 2012 to settle a federal lawsuit that said the coal-fired plant violated the Clean Air Act since at least 1991.
The Columbus-based power company will spend $15 million on an energy-efficiency project and pay an $850,000 fine under the terms of the settlement, which was released yesterday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice.
The federal lawsuit, filed in April 2009, said that American Municipal Power and former owner Elkem Metals Inc. should have installed air-pollution filters at Gorsuch when the plant was repaired and upgraded from 1982 through 1991.”
— Spencer Hunt, Columbus Dispatch
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