Baldwin Hills Power Plant Nixed.In a victory for community groups and environmentalists, an energy company has withdrawn its application to get fast-track fast track n. Informal The quickest and most direct route to achievement of a goal, as in competing for professional advancement: "Making complaints against the public is hardly the fast track to elective office" approval for a power plant in Baldwin Baldwin, cities, United States Baldwin. 1 Uninc. city (1990 pop. 22,719), Nassau co., SE N.Y., on the south shore of Long Island, on Baldwin Bay; settled 1640s. A fishing center and summer resort, it has varied manufactures. Hills. La Jolla La Jolla (lə hoi`yə), on the Pacific Ocean, S Calif., an uninc. district within the confines of San Diego; founded 1869. The beautiful ocean beaches, in particular La Jolla shores and Black's Beach, and sea-washed caves attract visitors and Energy Development inc. wanted to build the 53-megawatt plant on the site of a proposed state park in Baldwin Hills. The plant was attacked by groups that said it would pollute pol·lute v. 1. To make unfit for or harmful to living things, especially by the addition of waste matter; contaminate. 2. To make less suitable for an activity, especially by the introduction of unwanted factors. , neighborhoods and threaten the plan to combine 1,200 acres of open space into a large park. La Jolla officials said they withdrew the application because of community opposition and would not pursue a plant on that location in the future. The project was to be a joint venture between La Jolla and Stocker Resources, an oil company that leases the land where the small natural gas plant would sit. Earlier this month, the South Coast Air Quality Management District The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD), formed in 1976, is the air pollution agency responsible mainly for regulating stationary sources of air pollution for most of Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside County, and all of Orange county. said it would have to conduct hearings on the plant, which would have threatened fast-track approval under the state's emergency power orders. |
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