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Why North Dakota CO2 Emissions Cut Is Lowest In Nation
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North Dakota has to cut its carbon dioxide emissions less than any other state under the EPA’s proposed rules for existing power plants. How come?
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Visualizing Wyoming And North Dakota’s Emissions-Intensive Economies
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As states ready for the Obama Administration to release new carbon emissions regulations next week, a major question looms: What’s the most sensible way to measure and compare greenhouse gas production? Two states dwarf all others when it comes to sheer amount of carbon dioxide released: Texas and California. Texas is such a carbon giant that it accounts for 12% of U.S. emissions and produces nearly twice as much as the next closest state, California. This graph shows 2011 carbon dioxide emissions based on Energy Information Administration (EIA) data:
But there’s more than one way to slice and dice emissions data. Looking at carbon dioxide produced per dollar earned by industry, the story changes: Wyoming tops all states in carbon emitted per dollar earned, followed by West Virginia and North Dakota.
