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U.S. Carbon Emissions Down But HFCs Are Soaring

The news website, Responding to Climate Change , reports that “US greenhouse gas emissions dropped 10% from 2005 – 2012.”  

The results, part of the Environmental Protection Agency’s annual inventory of greenhouse gas emissions, show emissions “fell 3.3% from 2011-2012 … The US is just over halfway to meeting a pledge made at UN talks in 2009 to cut GHG releases 17% on 2005 levels by 2020.”  

“The EPA says the reductions are due to new clean energy generation sources, investments in efficiency measures and a drop in transportation sector emissions.”  

However, “hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), refrigerant gases with a warming potential far more potent than CO2, soared from 36.9 million metric tons CO2 equivalent (CO2e) to 151.2 CO2e from 1990 to 2012.”  


US GHG 466 U.S. Carbon Emissions Down But HFCs Are Soaring

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