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As Congress and now the Supreme Court stymie the Bi air force 1 den administration efforts to curb climate change, one thing the president doesn ;t want sky high gas prices actually is nibbling away at emissions of heat-trapping gas.Gas prices in much of the United States shot past the $5 a gallon mark last month befor adidas campus 00s e a slight drop, and Americans have responded by driving a bit less, two sets of data show. June gas sales are about 5 percent below pre-pandemic 2019 levels and 2.6 percent below a year ago, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.Americans in April, the last month data were available, drove 6 percent fewer miles than the same month in 2019, according to transportation analyst Michael Sivak, a former University of Michigan professor who is a long-time tracker of driving and car-buying habits. That 6 percent drop is tiny compared to the 40 percent plunge in driving miles in April 2020 as the pandemic kicked in.Yet, a 6 percent drop in driving roughly translates to a 1 percent drop in overall U.S. carbon emissions, Sivak said. The U.S. climate goal is to cut carbon emissions in half by 2030 compared with 2005 levels.High fuel prices are a really difficult thing because they ;re a d yeezy mexico ouble-edged sword, said Samantha Gross, director of the energy security and climate initiative at the centrist Brookings Institution. So prices that are high and expected to stay that way have more of a longer term ability to cut Xomt Zenk named to Eastern Connecticut dean s list
BEIJING 鈥?Japanese stocks plunged Tuesday and other Asian markets declined following heavy Wall Street losses triggered by President Donald Trumps criticism of the U.S. central bank.The Nikkei 2 owala water bottle 25 fell by an unusually wide margin of 5 percent to 19,155.14. The Shanghai Composite Index ended off 0.9 percent at 2,504.82 after being down as much as 2.3 percent at midday. Benchmarks in Thailand and Taiwan also declined.Markets in Europe, Hong Kong, Australia and South Korea were closed for Christmas.Wall Street indexes fell more than 2 percent on Monday after Trump said on Twitter the Fede owala nz ral Reserve was the U.S. e owala tumbler conomys only problem. Efforts by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to calm investor fears only seemed to make matters worse.U.S. stocks are track for their worst December since 1931, during the Great Depression. [Dow closes down 653 points as stocks on track for worst December since Great Depression]Shanghai is down almost 25 percent this year. Tokyo, Hong Kong and other markets are on track to end 2018 down more than 10 percent.Markets have been roiled by concerns about a slowing global economy, the U.S.-Chinese tariff battle and another interest rate increase by the Fed.Trumps Monday morning tweet heightened fears about the economy being destabilized by a president who wants control over the Fed. Its board members are nominated by the president but make decisions independently of the White House. The boards chairman, Jerome Powell, was nominated by Trump last year. |
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