02 Jun Texas–Where Everything’s Bigger (including emissions)

“If Texas were its own country, it would rank sixth out of 184 countries in the world in total [greenhouse gas] emissions, trailing just China, Russia, Germnay [sic], Japan, and the United Kingdom,” says a Greenpeace report released May 27.

Sigh.

Katherine Gregor reports briefly on this in the Chronicle here,
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A787172
although it’s oddly inaccurate.

You can read Greenpeace’s own article on the United States and Texas’ disproportionate share of greenhouse gas emissions here:
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/america-s-share-climate-crisis

-Christa