LANSING – Two environmental organizations have filed a lawsuit against the Department of Environmental Quality, charging it violated state rules when it issued an air pollution permit for the expansion of a Holland coal-fired power plant.
In the suit, the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Fund charged that the then Department of Natural Resources and Environment (the two departments split into the Department of Natural Resources and the DEQ in March) ignored a required local review of the expansion when it issued the permit for the DeYoung plant.
According to the suit, the Holland Board of Public Works had not yet ruled on a series of legally required issues when the state issued its permit.
The lawsuit was filed in Ingham Circuit Court.
The suit charges issuing the permit was arbitrary and capricious because the state failed to demonstrate the need for the plant expansion or that there may be less polluting alternatives.
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