{"id":3550,"date":"2009-11-18T17:18:07","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T01:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/?p=3550"},"modified":"2009-11-18T17:18:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T01:18:07","slug":"californias-biggest-carbon-emitters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2009\/11\/18\/californias-biggest-carbon-emitters\/","title":{"rendered":"California’s Biggest Carbon Emitters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carbon addiction is the same as any other in at least one respect: the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem. For greenhouse gases, reducing emissions requires knowing what you’re putting out to begin with.<\/p>\n

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The Conoco Phillips refinery in Rodeo is a relatively small player, as refineries go, at 1.9 million metric tons of CO2 per year. Photo: Craig Miller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was toward this end that this week the California Air Resources Board<\/a> released the first comprehensive data<\/a> on large-scale industrial carbon emissions in the state. Not surprisingly, the top emitters tend to fall into two categories: power plants and oil refineries, with cement manufacturers not far behind.<\/p>\n

Individually, major oil refineries have the largest carbon footprint. Two of Chevron’s refineries–in Richmond and El Segundo, BP’s Carson refinery and the Shell refinery in Martinez, all clocked in at more than three million metric tons (tonnes), CO2-equivalent, for 2008.<\/p>\n

Use the interactive map below, prepared by Climate Watch intern David Ferry, to locate the largest industrial emitters and see how they sort out by industry (We’ve been having difficulty with embedded maps vanishing from the blog, so if you don’t see the map below, just click on the link to it).<\/p>\n

(Click here<\/a> for a larger map and a list of all the largest emitters.)
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