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Texas Leads Nation in Carbon Emissions
By SETH BORENSTEIN
AP
WASHINGTON (June 2) - America may spew more greenhouse gases than any
other country, but some states are astonishingly more prolific polluters
than others - and it's not always the ones you might expect.

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The Associated Press analyzed state-by-state emissions of carbon dioxide
from 2003, the latest U.S. Energy Department numbers available. The review
shows startling differences in states' contribution to climate change.

The biggest reason? The burning of high-carbon coal to produce cheap
electricity.

Wyoming's coal-fired power plants produce more carbon dioxide in just
eight hours than the power generators of more populous Vermont do in a
year.

Texas, the leader in emitting this greenhouse gas, cranks out more than
the next two biggest producers combined, California and Pennsylvania,
which together have twice Texas' population.

In sparsely populated Alaska, the carbon dioxide produced per person by
all the flying and driving is six times the per capita amount generated by
travelers in New York state.

"There's no question that some states have made choices to be greener than
others," said former top Energy Department official Joseph Romm, author of
the new book "Hell and High Water" and executive director of a nonprofit
energy conservation group.

The disparity in carbon dioxide emissions is one of the reasons there is
no strong national effort to reduce global warming gases, some experts
say. National emissions dipped ever so slightly last year, but that was
mostly because of mild weather, according to the Energy Department.

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"Some states are benefiting from both cheap electricity while polluting
the planet and make all the rest of us suffer the consequences of global
warming," said Frank O'Donnell, director of the Washington environmental
group Clean Air Watch. "I don't think that's fair at all."

He noted that the states putting out the most carbon dioxide are doing the
least to control it, except for California.

Several federal and state officials say it's unfair and nonsensical to
examine individual states' contribution to what is a global problem.

"If the atmosphere could talk it wouldn't say, 'Kudos to California, not
so good to Wyoming'," said assistant energy secretary Alexander "Andy"
Karsner. "It would say, 'Stop sending me emissions."'

Some coal-burning states note that they are providing electricity to
customers beyond their borders, including Californians. Wyoming is the
largest exporter of energy to other states, Gov. Dave Freudenthal told The
Associated Press.

He said two-thirds of the state's carbon footprint "is a consequence of
energy that is developed to feed the rest of the national economy. That
doesn't mean that somehow then it's good carbon, I'm just saying that's
why those numbers come out the way are," Freudenthal said.

And the massive carbon dioxide-spewing and power-gobbling refineries of
Texas and Louisiana fuel an oil-hungry nation, whose residents whine when
gasoline prices rise.

However, some of the disparities are stunning.

On a per-person basis, Wyoming spews more carbon dioxide than any other
state or any other country: 276,000 pounds of it per capita a year, thanks
to burning coal, which provides nearly all of the state's electrical
power.

Yet, just next door to the west, Idaho emits the least carbon dioxide per
person, less than 23,000 pounds a year. Idaho forbids coal power plants.
It relies mostly on non-polluting hydroelectric power from its rivers.

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Texas, where coal barely edges out cleaner natural gas as the top power
source, belches almost 1 1/2 trillion pounds of carbon dioxide yearly.
That's more than every nation in the world except six: the United States,
China, Russia, Japan, India and Germany.

Of course, Texas is a very populous state. North Dakota isn't, but its
power plants crank out 68 percent more carbon dioxide than New Jersey,
which has 13 times North Dakota's residents.

And while Californians have cut their per-person carbon dioxide emissions
by 11 percent from 1990 to 2003, Nebraskans have increased their per
capita emissions by 16 percent over the same time frame.

Officials in Wyoming, North Dakota and Alaska say numbers in their states
are skewed because of their small populations. But Vermont, Rhode Island
and the District of Columbia are similar in size and have one-12th the
per-capita emissions of Wyoming.

A lot of it comes down to King Coal.

Burning coal accounts for half of America's electricity. And coal produces
more carbon dioxide than any other commonly used U.S. fuel source. The
states that rely the most on coal - Wyoming, North Dakota, West Virginia,
Indiana - generally produce the most carbon dioxide pollution per person,
but also have the cheapest electric rates.

States that shun coal - Vermont, Idaho, California, Rhode Island - and
turn to nuclear, hydroelectric and natural gas, produce the least carbon
dioxide but often at higher costs for consumers.

It's unfair to pin all the blame on the coal-using states, said Washington
lawyer Jeffrey Holmstead, who as an attorney at Bracewell Giuliani
represents coal-intensive utilities and refineries. Holmstead is the
former Bush administration air pollution regulator who ruled that carbon
dioxide was not a pollutant, a decision that was overturned recently by
the U.S. Supreme Court.

"Coal-fired generation is the most economical, least expensive way to
produce power almost anywhere in the world," he said. He argued that
outlawing such plants would have little overall impact globally; however,
the U.S. has long been the leading global source of carbon emissions.

Instead of trying to wean themselves from coal, Texas government officials
went out of their way to encourage the state's biggest utility, TXU Corp.,
to plan for 11 new coal-burning power plants that would have produced even
more carbon dioxide. The strategy collapsed when an investor group buying
TXU cut a deal with environmentalists to drop plans to build most of the
coal plants.

The Texas state agency charged with monitoring the environment declined to
comment on carbon dioxide emissions. Spokeswoman Andrea Morrow said the
gas "is not a regulated pollutant." Frank Maisano, a lobbyist and
spokesman for Bracewell Giuliani, which also has offices in Texas,
defended the state saying, "these net exporters of energy are always going
to produce more carbon dioxide."

Emissions from generating electricity account for the largest chunk of
U.S. greenhouse gases, nearly 40 percent. Transportation emissions are
close behind, contributing about one-third of U.S. production of carbon
dioxide. States with mass transit and cities, such as New York, come out
cleaner than those with wide expanses that rely solely on cars, trucks and
airplanes, like Alaska.

Alaska, which stands out for its carbon dioxide production, also stands
out as one of the early victims of climate change. Its glaciers are
melting, its permafrost thawing, and coastal and island villages will soon
be swallowed by the sea. Alaska ranked No. 1 in per-person emissions for
transportation, which includes driving, flying, shipping and rail traffic.

That's not the state's fault, says Tom Chapple, director of the state
Division of Air Quality. Its sheer expanse requires a lot of air travel.
And Anchorage ranked No. 2 nationally in air cargo traffic.

For people who want to reduce their household emissions, or their "carbon
footprint," the state where they live really does matter.

After seeing Al Gore's documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," Gregg Cawley
used one of the many calculators available online to determine his "carbon
footprint." The University of Wyoming professor lives in a small
one-bedroom apartment and drives a moderately efficient Subaru, so he
figured he contributes less to global warming than the average American.

But the calculations showed otherwise. They suggested Cawley produces more
carbon dioxide than most Americans. Even if he reduced his energy
consumption, the numbers would hardly budge. "My God," he thought, "what
do I have to do to my lifestyle to change this?"

Then he changed his home state in the equation. He took out Wyoming and
plugged in Washington state.

"I came in way low. I said, 'That's the problem. I live in the wrong damn