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*'''2006 NO<sub>x</sub> Emissions''': 7,185 tons
*'''2005 Mercury Emissions''': 222 lb.
==Killen ranked 47th on list of most polluting power plants in terms of coal waste==
In January 2009, Sue Sturgis of the Institute of Southern Studies compiled a list of the 100 most polluting coal plants in the United States in terms of [[Coal waste|coal combustion waste]] (CCW) stored in surface impoundments like the one involved in the [[TVA Kingston Fossil Plant coal ash spill]].<ref name="iss">Sue Sturgis, [http://www.southernstudies.org/2009/01/coals-ticking-timebomb-could-disaster-strike-a-coal-ash-dump-near-you.html "Coal's ticking timebomb: Could disaster strike a coal ash dump near you?,"] Institute for Southern Studies, January 4, 2009.</ref> The data came from the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) for 2006, the most recent year available.<ref>[http://www.epa.gov/triexplorer/ TRI Explorer,] EPA, accessed January 2009.</ref>
Killen Generating Station ranked number 47 on the list, with 715,435 pounds of coal combustion waste released to surface impoundments in 2006.<ref name="iss"/>
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