Answers, Then Justice: Mecca Residents Want to Know More About the Status of the Decommissioned Desert View Power Plant—and the Pollution It Has Caused

Answers, Then Justice: Mecca Residents Want to Know More About the Status of the Decommissioned Desert View Power Plant—and the Pollution It Has Caused

The Desert View Power plant in Mecca—owned by Greenleaf Power and its parent company, Greenleaf Investment Holdings II LLC—began burning agricultural and other waste products to produce electricity in 1992, under prior ownership. It’s now been out of operation for more than a year, and its Environmental Protection Agency operating permit expired on Sept. 30—which is good news to east valley residents who have been demanding that the biomass rene…