Maryland Emits More Global Warming Pollution Than Some Countries BALTIMORE, MD (wypr) - It probably comes as no surprise that the United States is the largest source of greenhouse gases in the world. But a new report from the environmental group Greenpeace shows that Maryland produces more global warming gases than many countries. WYPR's Joel McCord reports.

The report, compiled with data from federal websites, shows that, from nineteen sixty to two thousand five, Maryland emitted more greenhouse gases than the countries of Denmark, Sweden and Hungary as well as several south Asian nations.

Yet Maryland was far from the worst. Texas topped the list with more cumulative emissions in that time frame than Canada, India, South Korea and Iran.

At a news conference in north Baltimore, Tracy Wax, an organizer for Greenpeace, said the organization used the comparisons to help make the case for congressional action before December when representatives of 190 nations are to meet in Copenhagen to finalize a treaty on climate change.

"We can't wait for China, we can't wait for India; doesn't matter what they're doing, it's a matter of the world won't act unless we do If we don't come to the table with something on the books, the rest of the world isn't going to see any reason to act cause we haven't taken any action and we're the worst polluters."

A clean energy bill sponsored by Representatives Henry Waxman and Edward Markey is working its way through Congress now. But Wax said Greenpeace doesn't support it because it doesn't go far enough.
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