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Minnkota Power Cooperative and Square Butte Electric Cooperative

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The air quality in North Dakota and surrounding regions will improve significantly because the federal government and the state of North Dakota are requiring two utilities to reduce emissions of two harmful pollutants by more than 33,000 tons per year.

The Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced settlement of a case alleging violations of the New Source Review (NSR) provisions of the Clean Air Act against Minnkota Power Cooperative and Square Butte Electric Cooperative-member-owned rural utilities-that will reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2) by about 23,600 tons per year and nitrogen oxides (NOx) by more than 9,400 tons annually from the Milton R. Young Station-a lignite coal-fired power plant near Center, North Dakota. This is the first NSR settlement with a power plant utility in the Western United States.

For more information, contact:

Ron Rutherford
U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
Air Enforcement Division, Western Field Office
12345 W. Alameda Parkway, Suite 214
Denver, Colorado 80228
Office: 303-236-9515
rutherford.ron@epa.gov

Jeffrey A. Kodish
U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
Air Enforcement Division, Western Field Office
12345 W. Alameda Parkway, Suite 214
Denver, Colorado 80228
(303) 236-9511
kodish.jeff@epa.gov

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