Trump’s EPA to claim power-plant emissions ‘not significant’ – but study says otherwise

US power sector would be world's sixth largest emitter of planet-heating greenhouse gas if it were a country - study

Donald Trump's administration is set to claim planet-heating pollution spewing from US power plants is so globally insignificant it should be spared any sort of climate regulation.

But, in fact, the volume of these emissions is stark - if the US power sector were a country, it would be the sixth largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world.