The Washington region, with its crawling traffic and several coal-fired power plants, produces more carbon dioxide than several medium-size European countries, according to a new study of pollution.

Estimates show 65.6 million metric tons of carbon dioxide were emitted in the region in 2005 — more than in all of Hungary, Finland, Sweden, Denmark or Switzerland. And each of those countries have more people than the Washington area.

[Read](http://www.usatoday.com/weather/environment/2007-09-30-dc-emissions_N.htm “Read the Story”) (AP via USA Today)