{"id":1177,"date":"2012-01-13T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/southern-company-has-3-biggest-co2-plants-in-us.html"},"modified":"2012-01-13T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T14:00:00","slug":"southern-company-has-3-biggest-co2-plants-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/southern-company-has-3-biggest-co2-plants-in-us.html","title":{"rendered":"Southern Company has 3 biggest CO2 plants in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"David Ibala wrote for the AJC 11 January 2012,\n\nStudy: Southern Company plants are 3 biggest greenhouse gas emitters<\/a>\n
\nTwo Southern Company coal-fired electric generating plants near\n\n<\/a>\nAtlanta are the biggest contributors to global greenhouse gases in\nthe United States, and a third Southern plant in Alabama is the\nthird-biggest emitter, an analysis of environmental data found\nWednesday.\n

\nThe nation’s No. 1 producer of carbon dioxide — the\nheat-trapping gas that is held chiefly responsible in models of\nglobal warming — is Plant Scherer in Juliette, about 65 miles\nsoutheast of downtown Atlanta, according to the Associated Press\nanalysis of data reported to the U.S. Environmental Protection\nAgency for 2010.\n<\/blockquote>\nThat’s the plant that supplies most of our power in south Georgia,\nwhether you get it through Georgia Power or Colquitt EMC.\n

\nThe No. 2 producer is Plant Bowen, just west of Cartersville, about\n50 miles northwest of central Atlanta, and the third-largest is\nPlant Miller in Quinton, Ala., about 165 miles west of Atlanta near\nBirmingham, the AP said.\n<\/blockquote>\nThe story also notes (as a picture caption):\n
\nGeorgia Power recently installed pollution-control equipment, called\nbaghouses, to curb mercury pollution at Plant Scherer. EPA rules\nthat will regulate mercury likely will lead to the utility to install\nadditional baghouses at other coal-fired plants\n<\/blockquote>\nHm, that’s exactly what Southern Company said\n\nit was incompetent to do.<\/a>\nApparently it figured out to do what other power companies already knew how to do.\n

\nAnyway, pumping out CO2 from coal plants is what Southern Company is doing\ninstead of solar and wind.\n

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