Visualizations : Emissions Per State Per Capita

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Created by: Belarius Created on: Monday April 23, 1:28 PM

Data file: Emissions Per State Per Capita

Data source: Many Eyes

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Anonymous says:

Why is Wyoming such an outlier?

Posted Monday April 23, 2:05 PM
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Anonymous says:

wyoming has the 3 biggest coal mines in the country

Posted Monday April 23, 2:23 PM
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Anonymous says:

Is this data actually Production, rather than Emissions ?

Posted Tuesday May 01, 10:25 PM
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Belarius says:

Not, it's emission. Wyoming just also has next to no people.

Posted Wednesday May 16, 8:56 PM

scpeters says:

Showing emissions per capita skews the results for lowly populated areas. It's interesting to see the total coal emissions: Texas, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania stand out.

Posted Wednesday November 07, 2:36 PM
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Jonathan Koomey says:

Is this tons of CO2 or tons of carbon?

For small states with low population that generate a lot of electricity and ship it to other states,
a graph like this can be misleading. If you allocated Wyoming's exported electricity to the states that use it,
the numbers would even out a bit (although Wyoming is still very carbon intensive--most of the electricity is from coal).
For details, check out the Electric Power Annual from the Energy Information Administration (on the web).

Posted Friday January 11, 5:46 PM
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