The Washington Post, December 1st, 2005
The Federal Aviation Administration is conducting a more detailed review of Mirant Corp.'s plan to raise the height of the five stacks at its troubled Alexandria power plant, a plan the FAA initially rejected as potentially hazardous to air navigation. Mirant requested the expanded "aeronautical study" because the company believes increasing the stack height could eliminate the environmental problems that forced the plant's shutdown in August, company officials said. The five brick smokestacks are the source of the polluted downwash from the coal-fired facility that an analysis showed consider...
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