Middletown, March 29 -- Environment, clean energy and community activists submitted comments on Friday to the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) in opposition to its tentative approval of air permits for a Middletown fossil fuel power plant.
The current Middletown Repowering LLC owner, NRG, is pursuing air permits for a new turbine, which will be allowed to emit up to 1 million tons of carbon into the atmosphere per year-a net increase of 891,701 tons per year above the existing facility and equal to 13% of greenhouse gas emissions from current power generation in Connecticut. For context, this level of pollution will be the equivalent of introducing almost 175,000 cars to the road in one year.
DEEP's te...