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Sierra Club, Audubon Society settle lawsuits against SWEPCO

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Updated: 12/22/2011 6:16 pm

Published: 12/22/2011 10:18 am

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Environmental groups and an electric utility have agreed to settle their litigation over a $2.1 billion coal-fired electric generation plant under construction in southwestern Arkansas.

The Audubon Society and Sierra Club announced Thursday that Southwestern Electric Power Co. has agreed to mothball an older coal plant in northeast Texas to help offset pollution that the plant in Fulton will generate.

SWEPCO says the settlement enables the utility to proceed with construction and its plan to bring the plant online.

The utility also says it plans to file an agreement in federal court in western Arkansas on Thursday.

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Tired - 12/23/2011 7:08 AM

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Sierra Club and Audubon society are the occupy idiots...Swepco's a bunch o Jerks...total no win situation here wish it would have gone somewhere else

dilligaf - 12/22/2011 2:23 PM

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Sierra Club and Sudubon Society, both a waste of time. Almost as bad as these Occupy idiots.

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