Carbon emissions in the US dropped by seven per cent in 2009, representing the biggest fall since records began in 1949.
The data, released by the Energy Information Administration (EIA), indicates that the fall in emissions was due to more than just the financial crisis, which began in earnest in September 2008.
“Even with the reduction in economic growth since 2000, emissions would nonetheless have grown by 0.6 to 0.7 per cent annually, had the proportional relationship between economic and emissions growth remained the same as during the 1990s,” the EIA stated.
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