Article 3C3WV Vehicles are now America's biggest CO2 source but EPA is tearing up regulations

Vehicles are now America's biggest CO2 source but EPA is tearing up regulations

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Oliver Milman
from Environment | The Guardian on (#3C3WV)

Transport overtook power generation for climate-warming emissions in 2017 but the Trump administration is reversing curbs on auto industry pollution

Some of the most common avatars of climate change - hulking power stations and billowing smokestacks - may need a slight update. For the first time in more than 40 years, the largest source of greenhouse gas pollution in the US isn't electricity production but transport - cars, trucks, planes, trains and shipping.

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