U.S. EPA — Human Health & Environmental Impacts of Fossil-Fuel Power Plants

This U.S. Environmental Protection Agency resource summarizes health and environmental impacts associated with fossil-fuel power generation. EPA identifies power plants as significant sources of nitrogen oxides, fine-particle pollution and carbon dioxide, and explains how power-sector emissions can contribute to ground-level ozone, respiratory and cardiovascular health effects, reduced visibility, ecosystem changes and other environmental impacts.

This page is not specific to Horse Creek or natural-gas generation, and some impacts it discusses—such as coal ash, much of the sulfur dioxide burden and mercury—are primarily associated with coal-fired plants. For Horse Creek, it supports residents asking for the actual generating equipment, expected emissions, pollution controls and site-specific air-dispersion modeling before anyone can determine what nearby homes would experience.

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