The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled a searchable computerized map tool that allows users to identify the nation’s major stationary sources of carbon dioxide and other climate-changing gases, including power plants, refineries, chemical factories, and paper mills. The data was drawn from 6,157 sources, is current through 2010, and covers nearly 80% of the country’s greenhouse gases emitted from large industrial sources. Officials hope that making such information available, in searchable online form, will eventually lead to pressure for decreasing emissions. Read more »
