MADISON, Wis. – Pollution from a University of Wisconsin-Madison power plant has spiked in recent years after plant managers illegally failed to install new pollution controls during a major construction project, the state Department of Natural Resources said Thursday.
The DNR notified state and university officials in a letter Wednesday they violated the Clean Air Act by failing to obtain a construction permit from the agency for a major overhaul to the coal-fired plantâ??s boilers in 2004.