Sunsettommy
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"Overall declines predate the presidency of Trump, who took office in January 2017. Since 2011, when facilities first started sending data to the federal Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, emissions from non-oil sectors have declined by 15.1 percent. For seven years, that EPA program has collected annual emissions information from roughly 8,000 industrial facilities across 41 sectors of the economy.
The U.S., now the world’s second-largest greenhouse gas emitter behind China, led the world in reducing emissions last year, according to the International Energy Agency. It marked the third consecutive annual reduction for the U.S., which the energy agency attributed to utilities switching from coal to gas, dropping demand for electricity and climbing renewable power."
- Trump EPA Draws Scorn for Touting Lower Greenhouse-Gas Emissions -
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Do you realize that the main cause of the emission decline is economic?
When it became clear the decades long off shore and federal land oil/gas extraction shut down by the Democrats under Obama and the then controlled Congress were going to continue, they increased their exploration and development on STATE land for oil/gas. The huge increase in NG supply from the STATES made it cheaper than Coal, with naturally lower CO2 emissions took a larger share of the energy market at the expense of Coal.
It wasn't Obama or the Democrats that made it happen, it was the STATES who let it happen on their land that was a major factor for emission decline.
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