Environmental enforcement is environmental protection.

The Louisville Gas and Electric company will have to stop allowing toxic waste from its Mill Creek coal plant to flow into the Ohio River.

Plaintiff Sierra Club and Defendant Louisville Gas and Electric Company move to lodge the attached Consent Decree and Appendix with the Court for later entry in accordance with the following paragraph of this joint motion. The Consent Decree represents a settlement of all claims presented by Sierra Club against LG&E in this case. The parties represent that the settlement terms are appropriate, reasonable, and in the public interest.

If approved by the Court, this settlement will resolve the active lawsuit between the two organizations over discharged water at LG&E’s Mill Creek Generating Station under a permit issued by the Kentucky Division of Water.

Gives more details on how the money will be spent

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Earthjustice and Sierra Club move forward with legal action after utility fails to halt continuous outflow of coal ash wastewater into Ohio River

Time-lapse photography from a camera strapped to a tree captured a year’s worth of images proving that dangerous coal ash wastewater from a plant owned by the utility company Louisville Gas & Electric is pouring unabated into the Ohio River. A coal ash pond for LG&E’s Mill Creek Generating Station, which sits on the Ohio…

Sierra Club and Earthjustice plan to take legal action after time-capture photography reveals continuous outflow of coal ash wastewater into the Ohio River