Arkansas
Back to mapTo get to zero by 2050, Arkansas must cut climate pollution by 3.5 million metric tons of C02 equivalent a year.
Emissions in Arkansas
Million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MMTCO2e) emissions
We can do it. Here's how.
- Regenerative agriculture to sequester carbon in soil
- Composting to reduce landfill methane emissions
- New techniques for manufacturing CO2 emitting materials, like concrete
🏠 Buildings
6% of emissions in Arkansas comes from buildings.
Mostly from different types of heating.
80% of the pollution of your typical home comes from heating your space, water, and food.
To stop this pollution, we need to replace our furnaces with electric heat pumps, electrify our water heaters, and cook with induction and electricity instead of gas.
There are 1.6 million buildings in Arkansas and 50% of building systems are already electrified.
We need to electrify the remaining 787,000 buildings in Arkansas. That's around 28,000 per year.
That will solve 6% of the problem.
🚗 Getting Around
21% of emissions in Arkansas comes from cars, trucks, and planes.
Mostly from our cars.
To cut this pollution, if you have a car, your next one needs to be an electric vehicle (EV).
Or try going car-free with public transit, bikes/e-bikes, or walking if it works for you.
There are 872,000 vehicles in Arkansas and 1,000 are already electric (0.2% of the total).
We need to electrify the remaining 871,000 vehicles. That's around 31,000 a year.
That will solve another 21% of the problem.
🔌 Power Generation
37% of emissions in Arkansas comes from making power.
Specifically from coal, gas, and oil plants.
To cut this pollution, we need to replace all dirty power plants with clean ones (mostly wind and solar).
In Arkansas we need to close and replace:
5 coal plants
White Bluff
Jefferson County
1,800 MW
Independence
Independence County
1,800 MW
Plum Point Energy Station
Mississippi County
720 MW
John W. Turk Jr. Power Plant
Hempstead County
609 MW
Flint Creek Power Plant
Benton County
558 MW
17 gas plants
Union Power Station
Union County
2,428 MW
Hot Spring Energy Facility
Hot Spring County
1,430 MW
Lake Catherine
Hot Spring County
752 MW
Magnet Cove Generating Station
Hot Spring County
746 MW
Dell Power Plant
Mississippi County
679 MW
Oswald Generating Station
Pulaski County
600 MW
Harry D. Mattison Power Plant
Washington County
349 MW
Pine Bluff Energy Center
Jefferson County
236 MW
City Water & Light - City of Jonesboro
Craighead County
224 MW
Thomas Fitzhugh
Franklin County
185 MW
1 oil plant
Municipal Light
Clay County
7 MW
...and help those workers find good jobs.
But wait! Remember how we electrified all cars and buildings?
Our machines don't pollute now, because they run on electricity!
But that means we need to make more power for those new electric machines - twice as much power as we make now!
And all of it needs to be clean power!
So to cut the climate pollution from our power, cars, and buildings we need to INSTALL 4,000 MWs of wind and 4,000 MWs of solar.
Since Arkansas already has 68 megawatts of solar power generation and 0 megawatts of wind power generation, that's 134 Megawatts of wind capacity AND 151 Megawatts of solar capacity a year we need to build.
That will solve another 37% of the problem.
🏭 Other Emissions
The last 36% of emissions in Arkansas comes other sources
This includes industry, landfills, and farming.
There's no one solution to solve these problems, but there are a lot of great ideas!
These include:
Learn how to electrify your own machines and pass local policy to electrify the rest
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