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Here's one title an energy company would prefer to avoid: "Super Polluter."
Jamie Smith Hopkins writes for The Center for Public Integrity in a story published in the Detroit Free Press:
DTE Energy's vast, coal-fired power plant in Monroe — one of the largest in the country — ranks 11th nationally for most greenhouse gas emitted into the atmosphere, according to findings from a nine-month Center for Public Integrity investigation of "super polluters" across the U.S.
The Monroe plant does far better nationally when it comes to toxic air releases, ranking 140th nationally.
The investigation found that industrial air pollution — bad for people’s health, bad for the planet — is strikingly concentrated in America among a small number of facilities. The Center, which merged two federal datasets to create an unprecedented picture of air emissions, found that a third of the toxic air releases in 2014 from power plants, factories and other facilities came from just 100 complexes out of more than 20,000 reporting to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
A third of the greenhouse-gas emissions reported by industrial sites came from just 100, too.
