Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the United States

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The United States has seen the highest emissions over the past ten years than we have at any prior point. We would need major cuts in every single sector in every region around the globe to reach our goals. Some sectors are easier to tackle than others, am so some still have some technical challenges to work out that need to be scaled up and experimented with,. Others are farther along, like, of course, you know that e vs have exploded.

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