1.0 link 67930 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-pope/a-billiondollar-industry-_b_67930.html Washington, DC -- This morning, the Justice Department announced that American Electric Power (AEP) -- one of the most recalcitrant operators of outmoded, dirty coal power plants in the country -- has agreed to spend $4.6 billion cleaning up its 46 dirty units in the Ohio Valley, including three of the nation's twenty dirtiest facilities. The settlement was the penalty for AEP violating the Clean Air Act requirement that plants be cleaned up when they are modernized. The case was...

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