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“I would not have made these cuts in better circumstances,”- Obama
Great Scott, how did I miss this? Late last month, the EPA released a draft greenhouse gas inventory, showing that net climate warming emissions from the U.S. fell by a whopping 15 percent from 2000 through 2009 [PDF].
A 15 percent decline? Wow. Just wow.
But the story gets even more dramatic. Over the same period, the U.S. population grew by about 9 percent. Combining the two trends, net per capita greenhouse-gas emissions fell by 21 percent over the decade. And most of that reduction occurred prior to 2007 -- when the economy hadn't yet slumped, and before energy prices hit the roof.