Australian power stations among world's worst for toxic air pollution

Power stations in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley and New South Wales’s Lake Macquarie region have been named on a list of the world’s biggest hotspots for toxic air pollution.

The Yallourn power station in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley,
which along with Loy Yang A and Loy Yang B
power stations, produced 151 kilotonnes of sulphur
dioxide emissions in 2018 and covers a population
 of more than 470,000 people.

A new report by Greenpeace, published on Monday, used satellite data published by Nasa to analyse the world’s worst sources of sulphur dioxide (SO2) pollution, an irritant gas known to affect human health and one of the main pollutants contributing to deaths from air pollution worldwide.

The greatest source of SO2 in the atmosphere is the burning of fossil fuels in power stations and other industrial facilities.

Read the story from The Guardian by Lisa Cox - “Australian power stations among world's worst for toxic air pollution.”