"Plant Miller outside Birmingham is again No. 1 on the EPA’s list of top greenhouse gas producers, and no retirement plans have been announced for the facility."

"A coal-fired power plant in Alabama is again the nation’s top greenhouse gas emitter, according to new data released Tuesday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

For the ninth consecutive year, Alabama Power’s James H. Miller Jr. Electric Generating Plant was the country’s largest single producer of greenhouse gas pollution in 2023, according to the EPA’s annual Greenhouse Gas Reporting program.

Plant Miller, as it’s known locally, released almost 16.6 million tons of greenhouse gas in 2023, the most of any single power plant, factory, refinery or other industrial facility in the country.

That’s about 1.2 million tons more than the second-place emitter, Missouri’s Labadie Power Plant outside St. Louis, which emitted about 15.4 million tons."

Dennis Pillion reports for Inside Climate News October 16, 2024. [2]

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