US coal emissions [chart]

Take a look at how United States CO2 emissions from coal stacks up next to the rest of the top-10 coal-based polluters.

Though second to China, which accounts for a whopping 50% of the total global CO2 emissions from coal consumption, the United States still contributes a substantial amount of carbon dioxide from coal use, accounting for 13 percent of the global total.

By Simran Khosla, GlobalPost

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