EPA Finds Fault With Planned Coal-Fired Power Plant - South Dakota Must Resubmit Air Quality Permit

Pioneer Press, January 23, 2009

The Environmental Protection Agency has overturned a permit for the proposed $1.6 billion Big Stone II coal-fired power plant in South Dakota. The EPA told the South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources its air quality permit for the Big Stone II plant near Milbank, S.D., was deficient and needed to be resubmitted within 90 days. But whether the EPA decision kills the controversial plant was unclear. That delay could allow the EPA to enforce new regulations on carbon dioxide, which the Bush Administration did not want but the Obama Administration is promising.

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