Map Shows State's Biggest Greenhouse Gas Emitters

If you want to know who are the biggest polluters contributing to global climate change, there is a new interactive tool to help you learn who they are. You might end up being surprised at some of the culprits.

There are the usual suspects on the list of the top emitters of greenhouse gases in New Jersey with power plants, as expected, leading the way to those contributing to warming of the planet, according to a new database compiled by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

But the interactive tool unveiled by the agency on Wednesday underscores how dramatic a problem carbon pollution remains not only in New Jersey, but across the United States.

The online interactive map can be used in a variety of ways. The map narrows polluters down to towns and provides a custom search by facility or location, as well as searches by the chemical emitted and emission range. (The emissions data is from 2010).

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