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The world’s climate is getting a lot of media and public mindshare these days. Al Gore, former US Vice President, has made a new career out of it. We all use energy in various forms and we thought it would be worth pointing out a nifty online tool that you, the reader, can use to see exactly how DC stacks up when it comes to power plant carbon emissions.
To that end, we point you to the Carbon Monitoring for Action (or CARMA) website hosted by the Center for Global Development (also in DC) and a list of all the carbon dioxide emitting plants in and around DC. Pepco, the local power company, runs two electricity generation facilities inside DC proper, one at Buzzard’s Point and the another on Benning Road. The Buzzard’s Point facility is just a stone’s throw from downtown as it can be found on the other side of the Mall near where the new baseball stadium is going up.
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Readers, keep in mind that the CARMA Web site merely accounts for anthropogenic CO2 emissions from local power plants; it does not account for emissions from power imported into DC outside of the Metro region. To get a more accurate sense of DC’s CO2 footprint from power plant emissions, you would also need to account for emissions generated outside of the region for electricity consumed in DC. Moreover, the real culprits of GHG emissions in DC are not of the stationary kind, but the motor vehicles that clog our streets and highways on a daily basis.