The Scherer Power Plant, north of Macon, Georgia is the largest single source of Greenhouse Gasses in the entire United States and the 20th largest in the world, according to Wiki.
It consumes two to five unit trains (135 cars apiece) of Wyoming Powder River coal daily and emits over 20 million tons a year of Greenhouse Gasses while generating about 3500 megawatts of electricity.
Plant Scherer has produced more greenhouse gasses, every year for 33 years, than the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.
As most Kos readers know, milions of folks are screaming bloody murder over the XL pipeline and its indirect impact on increasing greenhouse gasses; people are demonstrating, getting arrested, and condemning inadequately opposed Democratic elected officials like our President and our leading Democratic candidate.
Meanwhile Plant Scherer puffs away, relatively unnoticed, on its way to emitting a billion tons of CO2 by 2030.
Read below the orange swirl of sulfuric acid gasses, for details on a little-known public hearing coming up on Plant Scherer.
Utilities have decommissioned hundreds of coal fired plants, and have stopped building new plants over the last few years. That is largely because the Sierra Club effectively challenged their air permits.
But Georgia Power (subsidary of Southern Company) decided to spend five billion dollars to install scrubbers and catalysts onto Plant Sherer in 2011. They awarded the construction contract to KBR (formerly Brown & Root), Dick Chaney's former company.
KBR constructed this $5 billion retrofit with non-union labor, of course. So Sherer is pretty much good to go for decades to come.
However, Plant Scherer must endure a public hearing on October 15, in Forsyth, Georgia. The public comment deadline is 10/22. https://epd.georgia.gov/...
This particular permit amendment up for comment would allow Plant Scherer to squeeze more power out of one of its turbines without increasing its emissions, and that is supposed to be the only item you comment on.
However I suggest that anyone concerned about greenhouse gas emissions send in criticisms against this permit, and complain about Georgia Power's failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from this plant.
The agency contact information is in the link above. Those comments would be technically irrelevant, but we need to send another message to Georgia Power and Southern Company to get rid of coal fired power plants.
Georgia Power has bragged about reducing its greenhouse gasses from other power plants, by converting coal fired units to burn wood chips, and by expanding the carbon-free nuclear power Plant Vogtle.
So they know that Climate Change is a testy issue. Let's remind them that Plant Scherer has to go.