Southern Company Owns Top 3 US Power Plants For CO2 Pollution - Reuters [View All]

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NEW YORK - Power company Southern Co. owns the top three plants that last year produced the highest US levels of the main gas most scientists link to global warming, according to a report.

The country's top three power plant emitters of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, were located in Georgia and Alabama, according to the report by the Environmental Integrity Project, a nonprofit that campaigns for stronger pollution laws.

No. 1 was Southern's Scherer coal plant in Georgia, which emitted nearly 26,041,000 tons of CO2 last year, said the report, "The 50 Dirtiest Power Plants," released on Thursday. The other top three carbon emitters were Southern's James H. Miller Jr. plant in Alabama and its Bowen plant in Georgia, which are also coal-fired.

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Southern spokeswoman Lynn Wallace disagreed. "If we weren't working on technological development to reduce emissions that would be one thing, but we are," she said. Wallace said that while Southern is not reducing CO2 emissions from the top three plants, the company has reduced CO2 emissions from its entire power fleet over the last 10 years by 115 million metric tonnes.

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