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David Roe: “What lowered the CO2 emissions in Europe and in the United States, which dropped almost exactly the same percentage, was…”

On the recordJune 10, 2009
What lowered the CO2 emissions in Europe and in the United States, which dropped almost exactly the same percentage, was our GDP went down, our output went down.
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David Roe
Republican · Vermont

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Roe explains that economic downturns, not policies, reduced CO2 emissions.

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