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U.S. carbon emissions fell in 2023, mainly thanks to natural gas displacing coal at power plants
The dip is thanks mainly to natural gas displacing coal at power plants. Emissions from transportation, on the other hand, were up.
Most of the reduction in emissions is coming from one place, per David Victor, a professor of innovation and public policy at UC San Diego: “The power sector is doing almost all the work.” Decarbonizing millions of personal vehicles is a lot harder than cutting emissions from the country’s thousands of power plants, she said. We’ll need to speed up those reductions, Jacobson added, to reach the country’s goals and prevent the worst effects of climate change.
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