Michigan, environmental groups challenge federal order to keep the power station open | Company Business News

Detroit (AP) environmental groups and the Michigan attorney general filed separate challenges on Wednesday against a federal order that holds a coal-fired power plant this summer. The environmental coalition said there is no emergency that will justify the JH Campbell plant of consumers in Ottawa, near Lake Michigan. The US Energy Division has no authority to force consumers to rehabilitate and reconstruct the increasingly unreliable plant, nor the decision of the state and utility to replace the plant with cheaper and cleaner sources, “says the 54-page petition. A few days before intervening and said the plant should remain open, at least until the end of August, due to possible shortage of electricity in the central US, the middle continent independent system operator, known as Miso, manages the flow of electricity in 15 US states and Manitoba in Canada. said Advocate Shannon Fiscal of Earthjustice. “This is a manufactured emergency.” There was no immediate response to ‘NE -mail commenting on the energy section. The order can also be extended.