State Closes Coal-Fired Plant That Failed to Limit Emissions

STONY POINT, N.Y.


One unit of the plant closed on Monday, while the other will close in one year, as stipulated by a 2003 consent decree.

The emissions from the 350-megawatt Lovett plant are linked to acid rain and smog. At the time of the settlement, state environmental officials said the emissions from Lovett alone, which looms over the west bank of the Hudson River, represented a quarter of the sulfur dioxide and almost a third of the nitrogen oxide released by electric generators in seven counties in the Hudson Valley.

NY Times