The infamous Homer City Generating Station
is a three-smokestack coal-burning
electric power station in Homer City, Indiana County,
Pennsylvania, USA.
It's owned by Edison.
Homer City Generating Station
is a hugely polluting plant.
It ranks as the #2 polluter
within Pennsylvania.
It releasing 8.5 million pounds of toxins
in a recent year according to
the Pittsburgh Post Gazette (see below).
Homer City Generating Station
releases large amounts of mercury (Hg), sulfur dioxide
(SO2),
carbon dioxide
(CO2),
and other toxic or damaging chemicals.
Amelioration:
A scrubber was added in 1998 which did reduce
mercury output, but only for one smokestack.
Please note, Homer City Generating Station
is not the only polluter in Indiana County:
there are also
1998: Total (air+water) mercury output was 2963 pounds according to the Environmental Working Group.
2002: ClearTheAir.org claims its air output of mercury was 545 pounds.
2003: Environment Maine Research and Policy Center claims it produced 665 pounds of mercury air pollution.
Sulfur Dioxide Pollution
1995: Output was 127,383 pounds of SO2.
2003, Output was 151,262 pounds of SO2 and the plant was the #4 SO2 polluter in the nation.
Carbon Dioxide Pollution
2003: Output was 14 million pounds of CO2 and the plant's ranking for CO2 pollution was #28 in the nation.
Public Citizen says:
"The plant ranks #33 in the nation for total CO2 emissions, contributing 13,745,174 tons of the pollutant primarily responsible for global warming to our atmosphere."
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