Learn How Much Your Power Plant Pollutes

[jpak]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/tech/2007/nov/14/111402493.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - There's growing worry about global warming, but how much of it is the work of that power plant just outside town? And if Congress limits heat-trapping greenhouse gases, will it affect utility and electric bills? And who's the biggest corporate culprit when it comes to climate change?

Answers to these questions may be only a couple of computer clicks away.

A new interactive online database unveiled Wednesday provides maps, color-coded categories and detailed information about who is putting 10 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere annually from power plants around the world - about a fourth of it from the United States.

The Web site, which includes information from 4,000 utilities and 50,000 plants, shows not only the biggest CO2 emitters, but also the facilities and companies that are most green, releasing little if any carbon.

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(website: http://www.carma.org)

[TheWraith]

1. NY state already offers statistics on this sort of thing, by provider.

My service is pretty clean--23% hydro, 23% nuclear, with most of the rest being gas, and a little coal.

[OKIsItJustMe]

4. Green electricity in New York

We're able to sign up for 100% green electricity in our area. See what's available to you!

http://www.sterlingplanet.com/residential/
http://www.suburbanpropane.com/electricityresidential.html

[kestrel91316]

2. I understand that the Navajo plant in the Four Corners area

generates power for Southern California (City of Los Angeles specifically). It's far from our only source, I'm happy to report. We also get lots of power from renewables, and the mix is only going to improve.

[OKIsItJustMe]

3. I use Scorecard.org

http://www.scorecard.org/env-releases/us-main-map.tcl