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Yvette Clarke: Unfortunately, even with these standards in place, greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector officially…

On the recordJune 19, 2019
Unfortunately, even with these standards in place, greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector officially surpassed those from the electricity sector in 2017, making transportation the single largest source of climate-warming emissions in the United States.
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Yvette Clarke
Democratic · New York

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Transportation has become the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions despite existing standards.

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