Report calls for emissions standards 11/27/2009

LAS VEGAS — Environment Nevada has released a new report and fact sheet that looks at carbon dioxide emissions, dates of construction and pollution per unit of energy produced for all 13 of Nevada’s fossil fuel-fired power plants. The report, “America’s Biggest Polluters,” uses data from 2007, the most recent year for which final data is available. It also contains data for every power plant in every state in America, through which the report states that Reid Gardner — a coal fired giant northeast of Las Vegas built in 1965 — is among the dirtiest plants anywhere in the country. It emitted as much carbon dioxide in 2007 as 827,000 cars.