Purdue releases a map of US carbon dioxide emissions

Here's a presentation from Purdue scientists about carbon dioxide emissions in the United States.  They analyzed every sector including power generation, manufacturing, and transportation.  Then they tracked the gas with atmospheric modeling.

A new, high resolution, interactive map of United States carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels has found that the emissions aren't all where we thought. The maps and system, called Vulcan, show CO2 emissions at more than 100 times more detail than was available before. Until now, data on carbon dioxide emissions were reported, in the best cases, monthly at the level of an entire state grid. The Vulcan model examines CO2 emissions at local levels on an hourly basis. Purdue researchers say the maps are also more accurate than previous data because they are based on greenhouse gas emissions instead of estimates based on population in areas of the United States.

Cool stuff.  I'd seen the overall CO2 emissions image, but this video has a lot more information.  Way to make use of the YouTube button!

Not surprisingly, higher population density = higher CO2 emissions.

You can see graphs of per capita carbon emissions by state here.  Conclusion:

"Carbon emissions from coal combustion have increased sharply in states that export electricity produced from local deposits of low-sulfur coal, so that states with low populations and large repositories of low-sulfur coal (e.g., North Dakota and Wyoming) are emitting about 10 times the carbon per capita (from coal, oil, and gas, combined) of more heavily populated states, such as California, that are importing electricity generated from coal combustion. "