The Role Of Carbon Pollution In The United States

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According to whitewhouse.gov, the United States lowered its total carbon pollution more than any other nation on Earth. The nation’s wind power has tripled, and energy from the sun has been increased tenfold. President Obama has taken a series of common-sense steps toward a clean energy economy. The first step they took was to reduce carbon pollution from power plant, which is the nation’s largest concentrated source of emissions in the United States accounting for one-third of domestic greenhouse gas emissions. Several local governments, companies and States have led the way towards having cleaner electricity sources.
Moreover, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been using a common-sense approach to innovating carbon pollution

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