“Poland is home once again to Europe's dirtiest
power plant, but German utilities still owned 11 of
the 30 most polluting facilities in the European Union
in 2008, preliminary EU data showed.
“Poland's Belchatow coal plant, run by state-owned
utility BOT Elektrownia, spewed out the most climate-warming
carbon dioxide (CO2) of any EU installation last year,
pumping the equivalent of 30.9 million tonnes into the
atmosphere.
“This amount, comparable to the total greenhouse
gas emissions of Croatia, was nine percent more than
the plant emitted in 2007 and bucked a trend which saw
overall EU industrial emissions drop last year.”
