re: #223 austin_blue

This is a few years out of date, but the 50 worst polluting coal plants contributed an obscene amount of pollution.

In 2011, the 50 dirtiest U.S. power plants were responsible for 30 percent of all U.S. power-sector emissions of carbon dioxide, 12 percent of total U.S. energy-related emissions, and 2 percent of worldwide energy-related emissions.10 (See Figure 1.) If the 50 dirtiest power plants were an independent nation, they would be the seventh-largest emitter of carbon dioxide pollution in the world, behind Germany and ahead of South Korea.11 (See Figure 2.) Their emissions in 2011 were greater than half the emissions of all passenger vehicles in the United States in 2010.12(See Table 1 for additional comparisons.)• The 100 dirtiest plants were responsible for about half of total carbon dioxide emissions from the U.S. electricity sector in 2011, and more than 3 percent of total worldwide emissions from energy use.1

That list of 50 includes Martin Lake and others mentioned above.