Ciy Attorney Dennis Herrera just announced a agreement with Mirant to close the Potrero power plant by 2010, one of the city's last remaining large power plants. According to our sources, Mirant will pay around $1 million to the city of San Francisco for "pediatric asthma and neighborhood improvements." (Ed Harrington, Sophie Maxwell and Aaron Peskin are "all on hand to receive plaudits for this agreement.") What's more, Mirant power plant folk will have to pony up $100,000 to city attorney's office for legal fees and costs. (Dennis Herrera is just really not someone you want to screw with.) In addition to its polluting smokestack, SF Chron reports, "part of the 40-year-old plant runs under an expired permit allowing it to draw in millions of gallons of water per day and return heated discharge to the bay, killing fish larvae."
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