Ammonia
Ammonia releases at Barry Steam Plant rose from 166k lb to 375k lb (2.3×) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Barry Steam Plant
Total reported releases 616k lb rose meaningfully year over year (+16%). Total releases concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
US HWY 43, Bucks, Alabama · 221112 · Electric Utilities · operated by Southern Co
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Notable Signals
Formaldehyde
Formaldehyde releases at Barry Steam Plant rose from 40k lb to 64k lb between 2023 and 2024.
Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size)
Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) releases at Barry Steam Plant fell from 280k lb to 120k lb (57% lower) between 2023 and 2024.
Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size)
Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) at Barry Steam Plant have more than three-quarters since 2010 (through 2024).
Showing the 4 most editorially weighted signals out of 6. Lower-severity signals fold into the chemical breakdown and history charts below.
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Ammonia
Ammonia concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size)
Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) concentrations have fallen 46% since 2010.
Formaldehyde
Formaldehyde concentrations are up 49% since 2019.
Barium And Barium Compounds
Barium And Barium Compounds concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Manganese And Manganese Compounds
Manganese And Manganese Compounds concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Vanadium compounds
Vanadium compounds concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Hydrogen fluoride
Hydrogen fluoride concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size)
Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (1 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 2,259. Why we surface this →
23.2%
Low-income
33.4%
People of color
4.7%
Under age 5
22.2%
Over age 64
Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics, population-weighted across the 3-mile buffer around this facility (from USEPA-clone/EJAM-open blockgroupstats). Indicator-level percentile and EJ-disparity scores are surfaced on the county page and the state page — they describe wider regional exposure burdens, not effects attributable to a single facility.
Source. EPA Toxics Release Inventory · retrieved 2026-05-07. Reporting year 2024. TRI is a federal public-domain dataset under 17 USC §105.
What this is not. TRI quantifies releases reported by the facility under EPCRA §313 — not ambient air or water concentrations measured at receptors. We do not attribute individual health outcomes to specific facilities; that exceeds what the data can support.