[Sustain] Fwd: 9/24 press conference on EJ lawsuit against proposed 'peaker' plant

[Eric Brooks]

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Date: 9/23/07 10:39 AM
Received: 9/23/07 1:46 PM -0400
From: josh at brightlinedefense.org (Joshua Arce)
To: fyi at brightlinedefense.org

Hello,

Please see the attached Media Advisory regarding our press conference,
tomorrow Monday 9/24 from 1:30-2:30 to discuss our filing of a federal
lawsuit to stop construction of the City's proposed combustion turbine
peaker plant in Potrero.  The case involves issues that have arisen
since the Supreme Court's greenhouse gas ruling in April's Massachusetts
v. EPA case as well as the continuing problem of disproportionate
environmental impact of energy production-related pollution on
low-income and minority neighborhoods.

To be held at the federal courthouse at 450 Golden Gate, on the plaza
next to the entrance.

Please come by if you are free.

Josh


MEDIA ADVISORY

For Monday, September 24, 2007


SAN FRANCISCO RESIDENTS FILE SUIT TO HALT CONSTRUCTION OF COMBUSTION
TURBINE POWER PLANT IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD

Federal Lawsuit Seeks Injunction to Stay Air Quality Permits
for Proposed "Peaker" Plant in Southeast San Francisco


WHEN:                       Monday, September 24, 2007

                                    1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

WHERE:                    Phillip Burton Federal Building
                                  450 Golden Gate Avenue @ Larkin
                          On the Plaza, Next to the Courthouse Entrance

WHO:        Non profit public interest lawyers, community leaders,
activists and organizations representing low income non English speaking
community

CONTACT:                Joshua Arce at 415-837-0600 or
josh at brightlinedefense.org


BACKGROUND:

Brightline Defense Project will file suit in federal district court to
stop the City of San Francisco's proposed combustion turbine power
plants from receiving air quality permits necessary to allow its
construction in the city's Potrero neighborhood.  The filing parties
allege that the proposed plants, consisting of combustion turbine
"peakers" designed to supply energy in times of excess demand, has not
been properly studied by the Environmental Protection Agency and Bay
Area Air Quality Management District in light of a recent United States
Supreme Court ruling regarding greenhouse gas emissions.  The lawsuit
also claims that the proposed plants, the City's solution to prompt
closure of the aging Mirant Power Plant, is an inferior alternative to
proposals that would shutter the Mirant plant without the addition of
new fossil-fuel burning power plants to this low-income, mostly minority
area, and thus violates the parties' civil rights.



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