Coal burners lead pack in study revealing wide gaps in states' emissions
01:15 AM CDT on Sunday, June 3, 2007
Associated Press
Texas spews more greenhouse gases than any other state in the nation – and by a wide margin, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.
In fact, the Lone Star State cranks out more than the next two biggest producers combined, California and Pennsylvania, which together have twice Texas' population, according to the study of state-by-state carbon dioxide emissions from 2003.
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The study showed that Texas belches almost 1.5 trillion pounds of carbon dioxide yearly. That's more than every nation in the world except six: the U.S., China, Russia, Japan, India and Germany.
The review, which uses the latest U.S. Energy Department figures available, shows startling differences in states' contribution to climate change.
The biggest reason? The burning of high-carbon coal to produce cheap electricity. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/060307dnnatemissions.3c1df3a.html