What are America’s current sources of electricity?
Coal, the most polluting fuel and the largest source of the leading greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2), is currently used to generate more than half of all the electricity generated in the United States. Other sources of electricity include natural gas, oil, nuclear, and hydropower. Does wind power offer real environmental benefits? Absolutely. Wind requires no mining, drilling, or transportation of fuel, and does not generate radioactive or other hazardous or polluting waste. Wind power offsets other, more polluting sources of energy. This is important because electricity generation is the largest industrial source of air pollution in the U.S. When wind power projects generate electricity, fuel at other power plants is not consumed. How does wind power benefit the economy? Wind power supplies affordable, inexhaustible energy to the economy. It also provides jobs and other sources of income. Best of all, wind powers the economy without causing pollution, generating hazardous waste, o
