No Drop in U.S. Carbon Footprint Expected Through 2050, Energy Department Says

The carbon footprint of the United States will barely go down at all for the foreseeable future and will be slightly higher in 2050 than it is now, according to a new projection by the Energy Department's data office.

President Trump, speaking here at a refinery in North
Dakota, has pushed for policies that promote fossil fuels
 and for the removal of greenhouse gas regulations. 

If that projection came true, it would spell the end of an era in which the U.S. led the world in reducing the tonnage of carbon dioxide it pumped each year into the atmosphere.

The new plateau would reflect Donald Trump's determination to walk away from the Paris climate agreement, to abandon any thought of more ambitious climate change policies, and to overturn the main federal climate protections recently put in place, like President Barack Obama's rules to curtail emissions from electric power plants.

Read the Inside Climate News story by John H. Cushman Jr. - “No Drop in U.S. Carbon Footprint Expected Through 2050, Energy Department Says.”