[operation clinton cleanup]

A large coal-fired power plant will close at the end of the year rather than violate a court-ordered deadline to install an estimated $1.1 billion in pollution-control measures.

geez, $1.1 billion could build a brand new plant... but the enviro-psychos would object to that to.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

You're not far off. Try $1 billion, 300 million, plus land. This is for a 650 MW unit going in in south Missouri by Associated Electric Cooperative.