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Biden’s green energy law is turning out to be huge
(finance.yahoo.com)
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this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2023
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In other words Europe is pretty fast in reducing emissions, from a higher then global average. China was well below global average and has increased emissions by a lot. Seriously the EU has some pretty good laws to reducing emissions and is besides Latin America one of the regions with the best relation between quality of life to emissions. France and Spain even have per capita emissions close to the global average.