Pennsylvania Coal and Coal Waste Power Plants

EPA Approved Source Specific Permitting in Pennsylvania. 

All pollutants in pounds per year, 2013.

All percentages are portion of population living under poverty line within three miles.

Coal Plant, Zip Code (MW)

Bruce Mansfield 15077 (2741 MW) (Retiring November 2019)

33%

76,155 lead; 1,097 Mercury

http://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110056969721

Cheswick 15144 (637 MW)

5,008 lead; 160 Mercury

http://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110056969641

30%, 6 quarters out of compliance

Homer City 15748 (1884 MW)

4,118 lead; 574 Mercury

http://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110000330339

7 out of 12 in significant violation, 35% below poverty line

Keystone 15774 (1711 MW)

32,713 lead; 2,558 Mercury

http://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110000538525

35%

Montour 17884 (1625 MW)

42 lead; 25 Mercury

http://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110000492324

39%

Conemaugh 15944 (1711 MW)

27,639 lead; 2,250 Mercury

http://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110000538801

40%

Coal Waste (All add up to 1402 MW, Seward is 521 MW)

All pollutants in pounds per year, except carbon dioxide in metric tons, 2013.

Cambria Cogen (also in Ebensburg) 15931

http://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110000330641

17,043 lead; 808 Mercury

22%

963706.9 (Metric Tons)

Ebensburg Generating 15931

600 Mercury

http://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110000330632

26%

590634.2 (Metric Tons)

Scrubgrass 16374

26,207 lead; 1,138 Mercury

http://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110005981296

669723.6 (Metric Tons)

35%

Colver Power Project 15927 (2020 closure plan)

810 Mercury

http://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110001147786

31%

1069252.5 (Metric Tons)

Piney Creek 16214 (closed)

1,842 lead; 38 Mercury

http://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110002348905

4 quarters sig violation, 26%

87186.1 (Metric Tons)

Westwood 17981 (Schuylkill)

20,603 lead; 233 Mercury

http://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110010970235

21.7%

392806 (Metric Tons)

Wheelabrator (Frackville) 17931 (Schuylkill)

10,822 lead; 223 Mercury

http://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110014012157

575479.2 (Metric Tons)

37%, 24% minority

John B Rich, Gilberton (Frackville) 17932 (Schuylkill)

14,488 lead; 264 Mercury

http://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110020578891

37%, 20% minority

903092.4 (Metric Tons)

Northeastern 18237 (Schuylkill) (closed)

36,614 lead, 612 Mercury

http://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110000584421

38%

617712.1 (Metric Tons)

Panther Creek 18240 (Carbon)

16,295 lead; 569 Mercury

http://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110030471610

43%

920.9 (Metric Tons)

Northampton 18067

41,460 lead; 571 Mercury

http://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110006623396

932357 (Metric Tons)

21%

Kim Clark 19013 (converted to natural gas)

11,637 lead; 130 Mercury

http://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110000603847

40%, 54% minority

494034 (Metric Tons)

Mt Carmel 17832 (Northumberland)

10,280 lead; 276 Mercury

http://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110007026306

40%

472849.5 (Metric Tons)

Seward (Same town as Conemaugh) 15954

145 lead;  1 Mercry

http://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110006623519

38%

1783047.4 (Metric Tons)

Total coal waste

lead 207,436

mercury 6,273

Contact Russell Zerbo at rzerbo@cleanair.org or 215.567.4004 x130 with questions or comments.