Green groups hail Supreme Court acid rain ruling

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PostStar.com

While a Tuesday Supreme Court ruling gave regional environmental advocates exactly what they’ve been seeking for decades, they said they won’t become complacent in their fight against acid rain.

“This is what we were waiting for,” said John Sheehan, spokesman for the Adirondack Council.

Sheehan was referring to the 6-2 Supreme Court ruling that affirmed the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to impose limits on smokestack emissions from power plants in Midwestern states.

Those emissions — flung as high into the air as smokestacks can carry them — have been shown to return to the ground in the form of acid rain and snow once they reach mountainous areas of eastern states.

http://poststar.com/news/local/green-groups-hail-supreme-court-acid-rain-ruling/article_9c3cdf72-d0b0-11e3-a238-001a4bcf887a.html

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1. Sierra Club, Huntley at odds over fish

T.J. Pignataro

Every year millions of fish are crushed against the bars and screens of the Huntley Station power plant’s intake system, or sucked into the system that draws water from the Niagara River.

And it happens as the Town of Tonawanda power plant operates with an expired permit from the state Department of Environmental Conservation, the Sierra Club says.

“Literally, hundreds of millions of fish and other organisms are getting killed and mutilated by that plant,” said Kim Teplitzky, the Sierra Club’s regional deputy press secretary for its “Beyond Coal Campaign.”

http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/environment/sierra-club-huntley-at-odds-over-fish-20140502

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2. High court made right call on pollution

http://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/page/content.detail/id/542674/High-court-made-right-call-on-pollution.html?nav=5003