By John Miller, Independent Energy Consultant who provides analysis of past, current and developing clean energy sources. – February 6
The U.S. continues to make fairly good progress in reducing its fossil
fuels consumption and associated carbon emissions since the mid-2000’s.
This article updates a previously posted analysis, which detailed
government policies, technologies and market factors that have most
enabled the U.S. to continue reducing its total fossil fuels consumption
and carbon emissions. 2005-16 U.S. Carbon Emissions – U.S. carbon
emissions from fossil fuels consumption peaked just before the 2007-09
Great Recession. Following the recession and the relatively slow
economic recovery, U.S. fossil fuels carbon emissions have continuously
declined on average. U.S. fossil fuels’ carbon emissions nearly peaked
at 6,000 million metric tons per year (MMT/yr.) in 2005. Total carbon
emissions have declined by 935 MMT/yr. or 16% 2005-16. This level of
carbon emissions’ reduction represents over half of the
U.S. Paris Climate Agreement pledge made late last year. Read on...http://www.theenergycollective.com/jemiller_ep/2397667/energy-technologies-markets-and-government-policies-major-impacts-on-u-s-carbon-emissions-2005-2016
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