Legal Opinion
Longleaf Energy Associates, LLC v. Friends of the Chattahoochee, Inc.
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided July 7, 2009No. A09A0387, A09A0388PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ANDREWS, Presiding Judge.
These appeals are from a Fulton County superior court judgment invalidating an air quality permit issued by the Environmental Protection Division (EPD) of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to Longleaf Energy Associates, LLC, for the construction of a pulverized coal-fired electric power plant in Early County. 1 The Court upheld challenges to the permit brought by Friends of the Chattahoochee, Inc. and the Sierra Club (the Challengers), and ruled that the permit violated the Georgia Air Quality Act (GAQA) (OCGA § 12-9-1 et seq.) and the federal Clean Air Act…
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