Mississippi Business Journal » environmentalists http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 24 May 2013 20:36:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Environmentalists back in court to fight Kemper coal plant http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/04/26/environmentalists-back-in-court-to-fight-kemper-coal-plant/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=environmentalists-back-in-court-to-fight-kemper-coal-plant http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/04/26/environmentalists-back-in-court-to-fight-kemper-coal-plant/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:32:48 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=56237 KEMPER COUNTY — Environmentalists have gone back to court with their continued opposition to construction of a coal power plant in east Mississippi. In the latest court filing in Harrison County Chancery Court, the Sierra Club of Mississippi wants the plant’s builder, Mississippi Power Co., to assume the risk of construction while the appeal proceeds. [...]

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