Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7))
Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)) releases at Columbia Energy Center fell from 2.4M lb to 20k lb (99% lower) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Columbia Energy Center
Total reported releases 158k lb more than halved year over year (-95%). Total releases concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
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Notable Signals
Vanadium compounds
Vanadium compounds releases at Columbia Energy Center fell from 95k lb to 9k lb (91% lower) between 2023 and 2024.
Manganese compounds
Manganese compounds releases at Columbia Energy Center fell from 127k lb to 18k lb (85% lower) 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) at Columbia Energy Center 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 2018.
Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7))
Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)) concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Manganese compounds
Manganese compounds concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
Vanadium compounds
Vanadium compounds 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.
Hydrogen fluoride
Hydrogen fluoride concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Copper compounds
Copper compounds concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Nickel compounds
Nickel compounds concentrations have fallen 24% since 2015.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (2 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 2,668. Why we surface this →
12.3%
Low-income
5.4%
People of color
4.5%
Under age 5
15.9%
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.