{"id":19640,"date":"2025-01-09T09:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T10:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19640"},"modified":"2025-01-09T10:24:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T10:24:58","slug":"u-s-efforts-to-cut-emissions-stalled-in-2024-as-power-demand-surged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19640","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Efforts to Cut Emissions Stalled in 2024 as Power Demand Surged"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After staying flat for nearly two decades, electricity use is starting to rise again, and the boom in wind and solar power hasn\u2019t kept pace.<\/p>\n

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America\u2019s efforts to cut its climate change pollution stalled in 2024, with greenhouse gas emissions dropping just a fraction, 0.2 percent, compared to the year before, according to estimates<\/a> published Thursday by the Rhodium Group, a research firm.<\/p>\n

Despite continued rapid growth in solar and wind power, emissions levels stayed relatively flat last year because demand for electricity surged nationwide, which led to a spike in the amount of natural gas burned by power plants.<\/p>\n

The fact that emissions didn\u2019t decline much means the United States is even further off-track from hitting President Biden\u2019s goal of slashing greenhouse gases 50 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. Scientists say all major economies would have to cut their emissions deeply this decade to keep global warming at relatively low levels.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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U.S. greenhouse gas emissions compared to climate targets<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n
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