Cayuga power plant
1,000
estimated deaths a year
That's about 3 deaths for every day of its pollution.
From 76 air pollution, under 0.1 toxic chemicals, 950 climate change.
$1.9Bin damage a yearplus $419M–$1.3B to pull its CO2 back out of the air
473new asthma cases a year
4.2cancers a yearlung cancers from soot, and cancers from toxic chemicals
3.6heart attacks and strokes a year
170ER visits and hospital stays a year
33other illnesses from toxic chemicals a yearmostly from arsenic
670,000lbs of toxic chemicals released28,000 lbs of them cause cancer
4.2 milliontons of greenhouse gases a yearas much as 980,000 cars
$7Kin fines over 5 yearsout of compliance 11 of the last 12 quarters
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Estimates for one year of pollution (2023), in 2024 dollars: model estimates from EPA data and published methods, not counted deaths. Deaths could be 32 to 3,000. One of the largest sources of fine particles in the US. EPA flags its 2023 figure as unusually high, but it is in line with or below what the plant reported in 2017 and 2020. How we estimate