Sierra Club study finds Georgia Power’s Bartow County coal-fired plant among country’s dirtiest

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A Sierra Club study ranks Georgia Power's Plant Bowen in Bartow County as the 17th most dangerous coal-fired power plant in the nation, responsible for an estimated 59 premature deaths annually from soot pollution. The article references a 2021 Southern Alliance for Clean Energy analysis that called for Georgia Power to accelerate coal plant retirements as the utility transitions to cleaner energy sources. Georgia regulators will decide in 2025 on the timeline for shutting down Plant Bowen's remaining coal units.