http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/10/08...ent/index.html

Quote: In the largest environmental settlement in Justice Department history, American Electric Power has agreed to install $4.6 billion in equipment to sharply reduce emissions at coal-fired power plants in five states, sources said.

AEP, one of the nation's largest power producers, owns coal-fired plants in the Ohio River Valley.

The record settlement comes eight years after the Justice Department, headed by then-Attorney General Janet Reno, filed suit alleging AEP and six other power companies had "illegally released massive amounts of air pollutants for years."

On November 3, 1999, the Justice Department filed the landmark lawsuits against the power companies alleging they violated the Clean Air Act by making major modifications to many of their plants without installing the equipment required to control smog, acid rain and soot.

"When children can't breathe because of pollution from a utility plant hundreds of miles away, something must be done," Reno declared.

The upgrades will be made at power plants in Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky, the sources said.
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It's good this law suit was filed and won. But I honestly don't see the AEP honestly making any of the changes. They KNEW all along what they were doing was wrong. They KNEW all along that what they were doing and how they were doing it was being harmful to humanity and the world in general ... and they didn't care.

Ultimately I believe they still don't care. Because if they had really cared... they would have done something about all this a really long time ago.