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Report: Nevada “Out Pollutes” 60 Developing Countries

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Wednesday, December 12, 2007   

Las Vegas, NV – A new study ranks Nevada 36th in the nation when it comes to global warming pollution. It doesn't sound too bad, until you consider that this sparsely-populated state creates more greenhouse gases than a host of developing nations.

Dan Geary of the National Environmental Trust says Nevadans emitted 49 million tons of global warming pollution in 2006. To put that in perspective, he explains Nevada's 2.5 million people produced more carbon dioxide emissions than many entire countries, combined.

"Nevada alone, with its relatively small population, has the greenhouse gas emission equivalent of 62 developing countries with a combined population of nearly 297 million people."

Another way to look at it is per person: Nevadans produce 100 times more global warming pollution, per capita, than many of the developing nations. Report author Peter Altman says that's why Nevada and the rest of the nation need to act now, to start solving the problem.

"It's because we have been the greatest contributors to the problem that we need to be the ones to start cleaning up the global warming mess."

While Nevada contributes a great deal to the problem, Dan Geary says the state also can offer plenty of solutions.

"There's a common phrase used, 'Nevada is the Saudi Arabia of renewable energy,' and that's a very accurate statement. It's going to take strong federal, and state, and local leadership to provide the transmission capacity to get those resources to market."



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