American Electric Power said they are committed to going green by keeping the Ohio Valley air clean.

Both the cardinal plant in Brilliant and the Kammer Mitchell facility in Moundsville.

They determined the best option for complying with the Clean Air Act would be to install scrubbers and selective catalytic reduction systems.

"The scrubbers remove the sulfur dioxide when coal is burned and the SCR is like a catalytic converter on your car that removes the nitrogen components during the summer months or the ozone season" said Doug Shearn, Cardinal Plant manager.

You can actually see the difference between the scrubber plume and the non scrubber plume, the scrubber plume is more dense, now come spring, they will both be that way providing clean air for the Ohio Valley.

The plume provides a much cleaner, primarily water vapor plume, basically as clean as a cloud.

"For what sulfur was going out of our stacks prior to the scrubbers, we're now eliminating 96 percent, 97 percent, sometimes as much as 98 percent of that," said Wayne Iron, Kammer-Mittchel Plant Manager.

The byproduct is gypsum and is stored in that big dome which is actually visible from Routes 2 and 7.

Most of the gypsum is being shipped down to the Certain Teed Facility where they recycle it in the production of wallboard.

In recognition of American Electric Powers' commitment to clean air, they are receiving the WTOV9 Going Green Business of the month for January 2008.