California slashes emissions, hits major greenhouse gas goal years early
Source: San Fransisco Chronicle
In a major win for Californias fight against global warming, the state appears to have hit its first target for cutting greenhouse gases and it reached the goal four years early.
Data released by the California Air Resource Board on Wednesday show that the states greenhouse gas emissions dropped 2.7 percent in 2016 the latest year available to 429.4 million metric tons.
Thats slightly below the 431 million metric tons the state produced in 1990. And California law requires that the states emissions, which peaked in 2004, return to 1990 levels by 2020.
Since the peak, emissions have dropped 13 percent. The 2008 financial crisis helped, cutting the number of miles Californians drove and the amount of freight moving through the states ports, railways and roads. But emissions have continued falling in recent years even as the states economy surged.
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Sophia4
(3,515 posts)I remember coming to Los Angeles in the 1960s.
I wore contact lenses, and my eyes watered the whole time because the pollution was so terrible.
We fought a battle and won. Hurrah!
ailsagirl
(22,837 posts)pazzyanne
(6,518 posts)"They" said it couldn't be done, and you did it! And ahead of schedule!
roamer65
(36,739 posts)Nullify the crap coming out of DC.
The technologies will sell like hot cakes in China.
NBachers
(16,999 posts)sakabatou
(42,082 posts)lordsummerisle
(4,649 posts)dalton99a
(81,065 posts)annabanana
(52,791 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,430 posts)for years and years and that has kept some people from driving as much. I had a lot of students pull out of my class to go to a school that was within walking distance of their home or had some sort of transportation for kids that was affordable. Many coworkers started car-pooling too and are still doing it. I also give Gov Brown a lot of credit. Pollution and the environment have been a priorities with him. I will miss him.