@datandmaps: This is what progress looks like when you stretch it across 34 years. Each stripe shows how carbon-intensive a state's electricity was from 1990 through 2024. And some of the changes are huge. Iowa cut the carbon intensity of its electricity by about 69%.
South Dakota: 69%.
Nevada: 64%.
Oklahoma: 62%.
New Mexico: 61%. The shift came from retiring coal, adding wind and solar, changing fuel mixes, improving efficiency, and building an increasingly different power grid. EIA's state data document the steep decline in power-sector carbon pollution across many states.( U.S. Energy Information Administration) Now EPA is moving the other direction. On September 14, the agency repealed much of the 2024 greenhouse gas standards for fossil-fuel power plants and proposed eliminating the remaining federal greenhouse gas standards for the sector. The rules being dismantled were projected to prevent 1.38 billion metric tons of CO₂ pollution through 2047 and deliver up to $370 billion in net climate and health benefits. We already know the grid can get cleaner.
The question is whether we're going to keep going. EPA is accepting public comments on its proposal through November 2, 2026. Tell EPA not to erase the climate protections that helped push the power sector forward. Visualization: John Bistline
Data: EIA State Energy Data System / EIA-923 #creatorsearchinsights #octobermood #california #texas #scienceinformation

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Friday 09 October 2026 18:48:16 GMT