Power Plant Pollution Drops Despite Uptick in Electricity

Power plant pollution continued to fall in 2018 despite an increase in electricity generation and a slight uptick in carbon dioxide emissions, the EPA’s latest tally of emissions shows.

Compared with 2017, the EPA said Feb. 20, nitrogen oxide spewed by power plants fell by 4 percent to 1.02 million tons, sulfur dioxide dropped 6 percent to 1.26 million tons, while carbon dioxide increased by 0.6 percent to 1.93 billion tons in 2018.

Combustion of coal and oil to generate electricity results in emissions of nitrogen oxide, sulfur oxides, and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

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