Dire Warnings Over Feds Failure To Track Highway Emissions
Source: CBS
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Eight states jointly sued the U.S. Department of Transportation this week, claiming that its failure to require tracking of highway carbon emissions not only violates federal law but could cause further environmental calamity.
The defendants say suspension of the program may — among many other negative consequences — exacerbate: Lyme Disease in Vermont, forest fires in California, crop-reducing droughts in Iowa, declining air quality in Massachusetts, storm surges in Maryland, polluted water bodies in Minnesota, declining snowpack in Oregon, and damage to Washington’s fisheries.
Just months after President Donald Trump assumed office, the Department of Transportation announced it had “indefinitely delayed” the start of the Greenhouse Gas Performance Measure, a program designed to track vehicle emissions in each state and set appropriate reduction goals.
The suspension of the Greenhouse Gas Performance Measure came roughly one month after the the U.S. Department of Energy announced that the transportation sector had surpassed electricity generation in becoming the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.
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The U.S. Department of Energy also found that transportation was the only sector to increase its emissions and that emissions from motor gasoline increased by 1.8 percent from 2015 to 2016.
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I thought we were sharing this info with Canadian scientists because the pollution/calamity doesn't stop at the border.
If it is, then how can Cheeto just cancel it?
