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Power Plants Are Top U.S. Air Polluters

  • June 02, 2004

Coal and oil-fired power plants are the top air polluters in the United States and Canada. The Commission for Environmental Cooperation said power plants accounted for almost half of all industrial air emissions in 2001. In addition, 46 of the top 50 polluters were coal and oil-fired power plants. The survey of chemical pollution from industrial facilities shows that power plants burning coal and oil produced 45 percent of the 755,502 tons of toxic air releases in 2001. Power plants,...