courant.com | Plan For Cleaner Power Faltering: "A plan unveiled in a high-profile announcement last summer by NRG Energy to modernize and clean up some of the state's oldest and dirtiest power plants is quietly sputtering.
The New Jersey-based company proposed spending an estimated $2 billion to reduce emissions and improve fuel efficiency at four of the state's so-called Sooty Six plants.
The 'Powering Connecticut' plan was touted by NRG as a way to bring plants in Middletown, Norwalk, Milford and Montville - which date to the '50s - into the 21st century. Those plants had come under fire in recent years as some of the state's worst sources of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, contributors to air pollution, acid rain and smog. "
