Dirty thirty (WWF)

Dirty thirty (WWF)

The World Wildlife Fund compiled a list of the thirty most polluting electric power generating stations that they named the dirty thirty.cite news
url=http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000001897.asp
title=Dirty Thirty - Europe's worst climate polluting power stations
page=
pages=
publisher=World Wildlife Fund
author=
date=Tuesday 4 October 2005
accessdate=2008-01-09
] cite news
url=http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/may2007/gb20070511_385331.htm?chan=globalbiz_europe+index+page_top+stories
title=WWF Slams Europe's Dirty Power Plants
publisher=Business Week
author=Helena Spongenberg
date=May 11 2007
accessdate=2008-01-09
] cite news
url=http://assets.panda.org/downloads/dirty_thirty_april_2007.pdf
title=Dirty Thirty: the report
publisher=World Wildlife Fund
accessdate=2008-01-09
] 27 of the 30 dirtiest plants are coal-fired.Five of the ten worst are in Germany.

The WWF releases an updated list every year.cite news
url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/05/10/eapower10.xml
title=British power stations 'amongst dirtiest'
publisher=The Telegaph
author=Paul Eccleston
date=October 5 2007
accessdate=2008-01-09
] In 2007 Germany and the United Kingdom each had ten of the dirtiest thirty plants.

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