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New Report: Texas Ranks 1st Nationwide for Most Pollution from Power Plants?

  • AUSTIN—Texas ranks 1st nationwide for most pollution from power plants based on carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution for 2007, according to a new analysis of government data released today by Environment Texas. That year, Texas’ power plants emitted a total of nearly 260 million pounds of carbon dioxide, the same amount of global warming pollution in a year as more than 45 million of today’s cars. “It's time for the oldest and dirtiest power plants to clean up their act,” said Luke Metzger, director of Environment Texas. “Coal-fired giants have dominated our electricity for decades and have been allowed to pollute without license. In order to stop global warming and reap all the benefits of clean energy, we must require old coal-fired clunkers to meet modern standards for global warming pollution.” Coal is the dirtiest of all fuels, but it supplies more of America's electricity than any other source. Coal plants currently do not have to meet any global warming pollution standard, meaning that they are an unchecked contributor to global warming. In fact, coal plants are the nation’s single largest source of global warming pollution. The growing impacts of global warming will impose threats to our safety and immense financial cost on our society. Most notably for Texas, it will cause a rise in sea level, inundating our coast; more frequent and severe heat waves, which will increase the number of people who suffer from heat stress and stroke; and more frequent and extreme droughts as rainfall declines and warmer temperatures evaporate moisture in the soil more quickly. To avoid the worst effects of global warming, the science shows that the United States must cut its global warming pollution by 35 percent by 2020. http://www.environmenttexas.org/newsroom/global-warming/global-warming-campaign-news/new-report-texas-ranks-1st-nationwide-for-most-pollution-from-power-plants

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Unfortunately, people don't realize how much mercury is spewed into the atmosphere from these coal burning plants. Thousands of pounds a year. It only takes a quarter of a teaspoon to completely contaminate 20 acres of water. It also is the cause of the increase in autism.

Yeah in a few hundred years we might notice the ocean has risen some. Or not.

Austin nearly falls off the left side of the spectrum, though. Seriously, no one would ever say that everything is perfect in Texas and coal plants are one problem we have that I would like to resolve. The so-called "clean" coal plants that Gov. Perry wants are a joke, especially when we have so much natural gas to develop (the Barnett Shale is nowhere near fully developed) and the wind farms in West Texas are still growing all the time. Of course, we have the space in Texas for nuclear plants and the means to train local workers to create jobs in places like Pecos. That being said...an article like this is probably supposed to make Texans feel sorry for polluting, but it fails. Our pollution is *nothing* compared to Mexico or China, so if you want to try and manipulate people via guilt go try somewhere else. kthxbai

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