Old story, new chapter: Georgia Power pollutes
June 6, 2007 at 1:11 pm by John F. Sugg in NewsNPR reporter Nell Boyce went on a quest to find the biggest producer of greenhouse gases in the United States. It turns out the government has twisted itself in a pretzel of convoluted rules and laws that make it almost impossible to determine which companies are the big bad boys in the pollution business.
That differs from other industrial nations, such as Canada, that have a registry with the idea of creating new limits for industrial polluters.
However, Boyce did find that the most egregious offender in Canada is a coal-fired power plant in Ontario. And that if the No. 1 culprit in the United States is also a coal-burning generating plant, then we have clues about who wins the prize. An old law requires power plants to report their greenhouse emissions.
Boyce found: “[T]he EPA says that for the past three years, the company at the top of that list has been the Robert W. Scherer Power Plant near Macon, Ga.”
Georgia Power, which runs Plant Scherer, is likely so distressed at the NPR report that it’s probably busy buying a few more congressmen and senators, who will then eradicate the requirement that the company report its pollution.
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