wow, there is a lot of terrible but good information in this report. from glancing through it, some things stood out to me.
- it's amazing how much of the pollution can be traced back to specific power plants with a name and address. That seems to offer a lot of potential in "confront" specific power plants...
- it's impressive (but not surprising) that the total emissions from WV's power sector = if every single person in the state (including children) owned and drove 7 cars and would drive 1.5 cars each to equal the pollution from Amos alone
- 7 of the top 100 polluting power plants are in WV
Yikes...
-Danny
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 4:56 PM, James Kotcon jkotcon@wvu.edu wrote:
The attached report identifies the top 100 largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the utility sector. I suspect that there may be a few large oil refineries or aluminum mills that would also make a top 100 list, but coal-fired power plants are, by far, the largest emitters as a group.
What is interesting is that, of the five plants in WV that made the top 100 list, three (John Amos, Harrison and Mitchell) are the ones that AEP and FE want to transfer from deregulated states to WV.
Thanks to Dan Heyman for uncovering this one, and be on the lookout for the news story he is producing.
Enjoy.
JBK
*From:* West Virginia News Service (WVNS) wvns@publicnewsservice.org *Sent:* Friday, September 13, 2013 8:40 PM *To:* James Kotcon *Subject:* report
should be attached. Dan
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