The new standards will especially benefit an estimated 72 million people in the United States who live near freight routes used by trucks and other heavy vehicles and bear a disproportionate burden of dangerous air pollution, the agency said.
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Transportation is the largest contributor to the state’s carbon footprint, making up 36% of emissions in North Carolina.
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The United States and North Carolina have goals to cut greenhouse gas emissions and reach “net zero” by 2050. But what does “net zero” really mean?
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The report, “Evolving Transportation in North Carolina: An Analysis of Emission Reduction Pathways for North Carolina’s Transportation Sector,” was created in part to help analyze options for achieving Gov. Roy Cooper’s goal to reduce total greenhouse emissions in N.C. to 40 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.
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