While they've done all of this 'Oh we're virtuous about coal.'" Freudenthal said producing 1,000 cubic feet of clean-burning natural gas for export to California can generate 2,000 cubic feet of carbon dioxide that's released into the atmosphere in Wyoming. "To some degree, it's like they're looking out their front yard and saying, 'We've got a great ocean view,' and throwing their beer cans in the backyard ... And Wyoming happens to be the beer can place." Edward Randolph, chief policy consultant to the California State Assembly's Committee on Utilities and Commerce, said California imports 27 percent of its power and said that 15.5 percent of the state's power comes from coal. Full Article at The Seattle Times