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Big Gas: Emissions Growing Four Times Faster Than A Decade Ago
Posted on September 30, 2008
While some northeastern states are taking tentative steps to eventually curb greenhouse-gas emissions, a new report says the climate-change clock is ticking faster than ever.Giddyup! (AP)The Global Carbon Projects latest tally of greenhouse-gas emissions marks a sobering reminder that global trends are headed in the wrong direction: The world is pumping more a lot more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year than it did during the 1990s. Man-made emissions, such as those from fossil fuels and the cement industry, are growing four times faster than they did a decade ago. That means that at...
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