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The fossil fuel industry has long been the main driver of climatechange, but Big Oil’s CEOs and profiteers would like you to believe that it is a part of the solution. million metric tons of carbondioxide equivalent (MtCO₂e) , equivalent to 5.2 million homes’ electricity use for a year!
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After the EPA proposed the Clean Power Plan in 2014, for example, fossil fuel interests and their backers tried to argue that the proposal’s 2030 emission-reduction targets were completely unrealistic, and that the country would see astronomically high costs and blackouts due to the rule.
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laws governing the cross-border transport of carbondioxide (CO 2 ) for sequestration, and how such transportation fits into broader climate and environmental protection regimes, including the Paris Agreement on ClimateChange, carbon markets and emissions trading. Louis in 2014.
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