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EPA settles with Wisconsin utilities on coal plant air pollution http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1366747472
Wisconsin Power & Light Co. and three other utilities will spend $1.2 billion to clean up coal-fired power plants and shut down older plants under a settlement announced Monday with federal regulators.
Under a settlement filed in federal court in Madison on Earth Day, the Environmental Protection Agency and Justice Department will assess a civil penalty of $2.45 million for alleged violations of air pollution laws over the years.... Utility ratepayers won't have to pay for the civil penalties... But it's possible they could pay for the environmental mitigation costs.
And over time they will be on the hook for paying for the construction of environmental controls at the coal boilers that will remain open.
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