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Winds of Change Newsletter, May 2007 See sidebar for table of contents
West Virginia Putting Out More CO2
According The Carbon Boom, an April 2007 report
from US Public Interest Research Group, West Virginia increased its
emissions of carbon dioxide by 7 percent since 1990.
Because our population has remained constant through
that period (approx. 1.8 million), our individual carbon footprints are
a likely cause (more SUVs and McMansions were purchased after 1990 than
before).
The newly enacted West Virginia greenhouse gas tracking
bill will help sort out which WV industries contribute how much
greenhouse gas.
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