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To: Douglas V. Fant who wrote (52292)	10/1/1999 10:24:00 PM
From: Think4Yourself	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

That lawsuit by New York is groWING... New Jersey, Connecticut May Join New York's Power Plant Suit Trenton, New Jersey, Oct. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The states of New Jersey and Connecticut may join a lawsuit that New York plans to file against six electric companies it says are operating coal- fired power plants in the Midwest that violate the Clean Air Act. New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection and Attorney General's offices are conducting a review to see if a lawsuit against the utilities is warranted, said Peter Page, a New Jersey DEP spokesman. He declined to say how long the review would take. New York expects to file the lawsuit in November. Connecticut officials also are considering joining New York's case, said Matt Fritz, a spokesman for the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection. The six utilities faced with a suit are American Electric Power Co. of Columbus, Ohio; Cinergy Corp. of Cincinnati; FirstEnergy Corp. of Akron, Ohio; Allegheny Energy Co. of Hagerstown, Maryland; Merrillville, Indiana-based NiSource Inc.; and Dominion Resources Inc. of Richmond, Virginia. Last month, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said he filed notices with some of the utilities to say that he is going to file a suit that accuses them of violating the Clean Air Act. The states of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, both of whom have complained for years that the Environmental Protection Agency hasn't done enough to crack down on pollution coming from coal-fired plants in the Midwest, are also considering joining the New York suit. Northeastern states allege that emissions from midwestern coal plants drift, polluting air on the East Coast. Midwestern utilities say their plants are not to blame for the eastern pollution. ``They are trying to blame us for a problem that they should be solving themselves,' said Patrick DalPorto, a staff engineer with AEP, which is the largest generator of coal-fired power in the U.S. The Wall Street Journal reported today that the EPA and eight utilities are in secret talks to settle a dispute over changes the utilities made in older coal-fired power plants that may violate the Clean Air Act. The utilities have offered to make expensive plant changes that would result in voluntary restrictions on emissions of gases believed to cause acid rain if the EPA agrees not to take them to court, the Journal said.