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Article: Huntington Beach, Calif., Power Plant Criticized for Increased Production.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
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- December 31, 2000
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Dec. 29--When the AES Pacific Corp. power plant in Huntington Beach cranked up its noisiest and most polluting power-generating units this past month, it did not go unnoticed.
"It sounds like an airplane taking off," said John Scott, who lives about a half-mile from the plant, a gray edifice that looms seven stories above Pacific Coast Highway.
Screeching and belching like a jet engine, the natural-gas plant had been summoned to run some of its emergency turbines and supply desperately needed electricity to the regional power grid. Some of those units produce 15 times the pollution of the company's best units.
For years, lawmakers, utility ...