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EPA: Power Plants Top Source of Gases Blamed for Climate Change
from the Seattle Times
WASHINGTON (Associated Press) -- The most detailed data yet on emissions of heat-trapping gases show that U.S. power plants are responsible for the bulk of the pollution blamed for global warming.
Power plants released 72 percent of the greenhouse gases reported to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for 2010, according to information released Wednesday that was the first catalog of global-warming pollution by facility. The data include more than 6,700 of the largest industrial sources of greenhouse gases, or about 80 percent of U.S. emissions.
According to an Associated Press analysis, 20 mostly coal-fired power plants in 15 states account for the top-releasing facilities. The largest greenhouse-gas polluter in the nation in 2010, according to the EPA's data, was the Scherer power plant in Juliette, Ga., owned by Southern Co. That coal-fired power plant reported releasing nearly 23 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas, in 2010.
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