None of Connecticut’s electricity power plants rank in the top 100 for most carbon dioxide produced each year, according to a new study from Environment America.
The top-100 list consists almost entirely of coal plants. A Georgia coal plant that emits 21.3 million metric tons of carbon dioxide took the top spot.
None of Connecticut’s plants generated enough greenhouse gas to make the top-100 list.
The five Connecticut plants that produce the most CO2 — Lake Road Generating Plant, Milford Power Project, Bridgeport Energy Project, Kleen Energy Systems Project and Bridgeport Station — generate a combined 5.9 million metric tons per year, according to the report.
That represents 77 percent of the entire CO2 output of the state’s electric power sector.
Connecticut’s electric-power sector emissions total 7.7 million metric tons, ranking the state 40th in the country.
Across all 50 states, the biggest polluters generated a disproportionate share of the country’s total emissions output.
Of the nearly 6,000 electricity generating facilities in the country, 50 plants emitted about 30 percent of power-sector CO2 emissions, the report said.
Environment America used data from the U.S. Energy Department and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to compile the study.
