Who Were the Worst of the Worst Climate Polluters in 2022? - Inside Climate News
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Emissions from the largest greenhouse gas emitters in the U.S. were down slightly in 2022, but thousands of industrial facilities with substantial emissions remain, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s recently released Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program data. Emissions from large industrial sources decreased by approximately 1 percent to 2.7 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide […]
  • neanderthal@lemmy.world
    3·
    8 months ago

    I’m all for naming the culprits, but the leading picture is misleading and counterproductive. Sure, the steel plant is dirty, but it is better than a plant that is just as dirty or worse on the other side of the Pacific that is shipped here via dirty ship. To make matters worse, it wasn’t even in the top 10 that the article later lists.

    It sucks, but we have to be anal retentive about dotting our Is and crossing our Ts, or the opposition can dismiss sources like that as disingenuous and make it harder to win over fence sitters.

    ETA: I live in the US and applied to the US because it was a US centric article.

    • Sonori@beehaw.org
      4·
      8 months ago

      How about a fine equal to all profit made by said companies, thier parents, and thier subsidiaries until emissions fall to within reasonable levels. I mean if carbon capture is going to offset everything like many of these plants claim, i’m sure they’d have no problem with it, right?