Posted on 07/26/2005 6:57:20 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
SOMERSET, Mass. (AP) - Ten power plants in the Northeast last year produced a third of the region's carbon dioxide emissions, considered a major contributor to global warming, according to a report released Tuesday by a coalition of environmental groups.
Brayton Point Station, a predominantly coal-fired plant in Somerset, was the top carbon dioxide emitter, the report said. The report said Brayton Point released 5.7 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the air in 2004, representing nearly 5 percent of the total released in the nine-state region.
Two other Massachusetts power plants also were included on the list, along with six plants in New York and one in New Jersey. The report was compiled by the National Association of State Public Interest Research Groups, the Clean Water Fund and Environmental Advocates of New York.
"Actions at relatively few plants will make a big impact and enable the region to achieve a meaningful and effective near-term target for reducing carbon dioxide pollution," the report said.
A spokesman for Dominion, a Richmond, Va.-based energy producer that owns Brayton Point, said in a statement that the power plant already is meeting carbon dioxide emission rules due to take effect in Massachusetts next year.
The company has also been participating in a regional greenhouse initiative, spokesman Dan Genest said.
The nine states in the study were Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont.
I am a top polluter...
the chow hall food in Baghad last year gave me quite a bit of "methane"
:)
I was going to say after a night of drinking Jack Daniels my girlfriend says that I am one of the top polluters.
Don't you just love the million man math?
Wasn't there an initiative to trade "pollution credits" in the past? Didn't the federal government allow companies that met their pollution targets to trade their "excess pollution capacity" to other companies that couldn't meet their targets, so that the population as a whole still met the goals? Are these coalitions of environmental groups aware of these trades and factor them into these announcements, or does that not apply anymore?
-PJ
Anybody else notice that all the states listed are in New England. I guess the liberals are officially the top polluters (of this type) in the country.
You and those damned cows, Mike. ;-)
Carbon dioxide is plant food.
The trouble with "environmental reports" is that they are written by evironmentalists. They don't mean anything.
Let me just say Prrrrrrrttt!!!! I'm an EPA superfund site.
These ten power plants should be shutdown immediately and a copy of this report sent to each family without electricity.
Congratulations to the winners. To the "also-rans:" You'll never make the big time if you are willing to settle for second place. Try burning some old tires or something. Make up in creativity what you may lack in stature. Or, as the old folks used to call it, "grit."
CARB and EPA's worst enemy, My 83 Cutlass w/455 and 86 Caprice w/307 (no cats, no smog pump, dual exhaust on cut, no nada...)
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