{"id":5640,"date":"2013-09-12T11:30:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T15:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=5640"},"modified":"2013-09-12T11:33:45","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T15:33:45","slug":"plant-scherer-countrys-dirtiest-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/plant-scherer-countrys-dirtiest-again-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Plant Scherer country’s dirtiest again!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n
\n<\/a>
\nSouthern Company #1 and #2!
\nWe get most of our electricity from #1 coal Plant Scherer
\nnear Macon, and 1\/4 of its power goes to Florida, dirtying our air.
\nSO says it’s worst only because it’s one of the biggest.
\nBut it still emits more greenhouse gases than any other power plant
\nin the country.
\n#2 is only about twice as far away, and it’s also Southern Company.\n<\/p>\n

\nKate Sheppard wrote for Huffpost 10 September 2013,
\n
\nBiggest Polluters In U.S. Ranked By Greenhouse Gas Emissions In New Report<\/a>,<\/p>\n

\nThe top five individual plants were:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. \n Georgia Power Company’s Plant Scherer<\/p>\n
  2. \n Alabama Power Company’s James H. Miller Jr. Plant<\/p>\n
  3. \n Luminant Generation Company’s Martin Lake Plant in Texas<\/p>\n
  4. \n Union Electric Company’s Labadie Plant in Missouri<\/p>\n
  5. \n NRG Texas Power’s W.A. Parish Plant\n<\/ol>\n

    These power plants, said Julian Boggs, Environment America’s global warming program director, “are the elephant in the room when it comes to global warming.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    \nThe report,
    \n
    \nAmerica’s Dirtiest Power Plants<\/a>,
    \nby Environment America,
    \nsays (page 5) Plant Scherer alone produces 0.4% of all U.S. CO2 emissions
    \nand 0.1% of all the world’s. Plant Miller emits almost as much, so that’s 0.8% of U.S. and 0.2% of world CO2
    \nemissions from just the top 2 Southern Company coal plants.\n<\/p>\n

    \nHow about we insist Georgia Power and Southern Company get on with solar
    \npower inland and wind off the coast to replace all those coal plants and
    \nthe water-sucking nukes, too?\n<\/p>\n

    \n -jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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