Vermont Yankee produces zero greenhouse gases or fossil fuel pollution.

Vermont Yankee helps ensure that the region's beautiful forests, rivers and lakes are not damaged by acid rain because Vermont Yankee reduces the need to build other pollution-causing power plants. A coal, gas or oil plant of comparable size would send millions of tons of fossil pollution into Vermont's air.

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the most effective emissions control strategy for utilities is to increase nuclear generation. In fact, in 2002, Nuclear energy accounted for about 75 percent of all U.S. emission-free generation.