Judge Rules Lawsuit Against Power Plant In Indiana Filed Too Late, but Stays Decision

摘要

A federal district judge in Indiana granted summary judgment in favor of Duke Energy Sept. 14, ruling an environmental group filed its lawsuit after the statute of limitations expired, but she stayed the decision pending a ruling by an appeals court on a similarrnissue (Sierra Club v. Duke Energy Indiana Inc., S.D. Ind., No. 08-00437, 9/14/10).rnJudge Sarah Evans Barker of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana ruled that the five-year statute of limitations had expired when the Sierra Club filed a lawsuit in 2008 alleging Duke Energy had modified its Edwardsport Generating Station in Knox County, Ind., between 1993 and 2001 without obtaining the necessary prevention of significant deterioration permits.