A public hearing will be held in about three weeks to discuss a plan to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions in Posey County.
The Indiana Department of Environmental Management has proposed emission limits for Vectren's A.B. Brown power plant, after the EPA listed Posey County among regions with plants exceeding emission standards.
The plan will be discussed during a public hearing March 23rd at 6:00 p.m. at the Mount Vernon Fire Station.
The Sierra Club already rejects the proposed emission limits. The group says IDEM’s plan is based on “flawed modeling that will not assure that the concentration of air pollution stays below the health standard.”
Among other issues, the club says IDEM didn’t take into account other nearby producers of sulfur dioxide, like Alcoa’s Warrick and Vectren’s E.B. Culley plants in Warrick County, Duke Energy’s plant in Gibson County, and the Big Rivers plant in Webster County, Kentucky.