Eskom rebuts report it leads world nitrogen pollution

The Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. Arnot coal-fired power station in Mpumalanga, South Africa.Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg

JOHANNESBURG: Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd, South Africa’s state power company, disputed the findings of a Greenpeace report that it operates many of the world’s worst emission sites for toxic nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide.

The Major Air Polluters in Africa report, released last Thursday by Greenpeace, asserted that coal-fired plants operated by the utility account for five of the world’s 10 biggest single-source nitrogen-dioxide emission sites.