along with the Cayuga plant that AES also owned. The transfer occurred as the result of a bankruptcy settlement with AES's creditors. It was noted in the approving public service commission order that the 5 creditors that own the new organization provided AES $550 million in financing to acquire the facility in 1999. One of the five creditors included the California Public Employees’ Retirement System. Kintigh Electric Energy Production (2006-2012) In 2016, Upstate New York Power Producers sold the Kintigh facility and the Cayuga facility to Riesling Power, LLC. In March 2020, the Kintigh facility was retired. Environmental impacts In 2010, the Clean Air Task Force, a nonprofit research and advocacy association, published a report evaluating the environmental and health effects attributable to fine particle pollution from coal-fired U.S. power plants, specifically mentioning the Kintigh Generating Station. The report focused on air pollution from soot, heavy metals, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. Alleging that fine particle pollution from coal power plants is responsible for 13,000 deaths annually in the United States, it posited that the Kintigh Generating Station's fine particle pollution caused 11 preventable deaths a year, 19 heart attacks and 170 asthma attacks. The Research and Policy Center of Environment New York has also been critical of the Kintigh Generating Station, claiming in 2011 that the plant emits almost 3.8 million mass tons of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide each year. References External links AES company website 1984 establishments in New York (state) Energy infrastructure completed in 1984 Coal-fired power stations in New York (state) Buildings and structures in Niagara County, New York Cancelled nuclear power stations in the United States