Ammonia
Ammonia releases at U.S. Tva Shawnee Fossil Plant rose from 29k lb to 49k lb between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
U.S. Tva Shawnee Fossil Plant
Total reported releases 2.3M lb rose meaningfully year over year (+20%). Total releases concentrations have fallen 30% since 2010.
7900 METROPOLIS LAKE RD, West Paducah, Kentucky · 221112 · Electric Utilities · operated by US Tennessee Valley Authority
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Notable Signals
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 U.S. Tva Shawnee Fossil Plant have more than three-quarters since 2010 (through 2024).
Hydrogen fluoride
Hydrogen fluoride at U.S. Tva Shawnee Fossil Plant have more than halved since 2010 (through 2024).
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Barium And Barium Compounds
Barium And Barium Compounds concentrations have fallen 17% since 2010.
Hydrogen fluoride
Hydrogen fluoride concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Manganese And Manganese Compounds
Manganese And Manganese Compounds concentrations have fallen 25% since 2010.
Copper And Copper Compounds
Copper And Copper Compounds concentrations are up 29% since 2010.
Vanadium compounds
Vanadium compounds concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2010.
Ammonia
Ammonia concentrations are up 31% since 2018.
Zinc compounds
Zinc compounds concentrations have fallen 35% 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 1,864. Why we surface this →
36.2%
Low-income
17.5%
People of color
6.3%
Under age 5
15.6%
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.