Homer City Generating Station
Coal-Fired Power Plant in Homer City, Pennsylvania

Description

The 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

Reliant Energy: Keystone Power Plant
Reliant Energy: Conemaugh Generating Station which is along the Conemaugh river.

Pollution

Mercury Pollution

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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