Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Texas' emissions top EPA list

Texas likes to brag that it’s big. Turns out that it’s a big emitter of greenhouse gases, too.

A new federal database shows that in 2010 the Lone Star State’s power plants and refineries sent 294 million metric tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere – more than twice the amount released by similar facilities in any other state.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/environment/la--me-gs-emissions-texas-0120111,0,3217162.story?track=rss

Article courtesy of the Los Angeles Times by Bettina Boxall

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