Carbon dioxide emissions from Nevada fell 12.5 percent from 2004 to 2007 despite a growing population, an environmental advocacy group reports.
Environment Nevada today reported the decrease while releasing a report on the subject.
The group attributed much of the decrease to the shutdown of a coal-fired power plant near Laughlin, but also reported decreases in emissions in the residential, industrial, commercial and transportation sectors.
Carbon dioxide is the gas most often associated with legislation aimed at mitigating global climate change.
Pete Dronkers of Environment Nevada said the new report shows reducing consumers' dependence on energy from coal and other fossil fuels works to reduce carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.
Dronkers says it supports the contention the United States should adopt measures such as renewable fuels requirements.
"We have just begun a trend to start cleaning our energy," Dronkers said. "We can continue that trend or we can reverse it."
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