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Power Company to Pay $4.6 Billion Settlement

NPR | By Elizabeth Shogren

Published October 9, 2007 at 4:00 PM EDT

American Electric Power, an Ohio-based company, has agreed to a $4.6 billion settlement of a lawsuit over pollution controls at its power plants.

The Justice Department says it's the biggest environmental enforcement settlement ever.