Southern Company continues to support ongoing air quality studies to determine what impact, if any, our plant emissions may be having on human health and the environment. Learn more at: - EPA - EPRI - Edison Electric Institute
What Others Say
"Although this industry [electric utilities] will report large quantities of emissions, the resulting risk to public health is minimal. This example illustrates why TRI should be revamped to consider risk as well as emissions."
George M. Gray, M.D.
Harvard Center for Risk Analysis
"These reports [EPA and Harvard Center for Risk Analysis] conclude that the electric utility releases studied do not pose a significant risk of cancer or non-cancer health effects. …My message is that while the volumes of some of the utility industry's emissions are high, the risk they pose to public health is quite low."
Harold M. Koenig, M.D.
former Surgeon General, U.S. Navy,
specialist in pediatric oncology
Putting risk into perspective
What the studies say
2004 TRI data for Southern Company
TRI Historical Data