The company was fined $300,000 for violations of the Act and will be required to follow more stringent and permanent emission limits.
Installation of a sulfuric acid mist pollution control system to reduce sulfuric acid mist emissions by about 3.7 million lbs per annum is part of the agreed settlement.
Environment Protection Agency regional administrator Gwendolyn Keyes-Fleming said lowering the sulfuric acid mist emissions is important to protect the region’s environment.
The company has also agreed to spend $500,000 on an environmental mitigation project that will include the replacement of a coal-fired boiler with a geothermal heating and cooling system at an elementary school in the Kentucky Utilities service area.
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