could be falling faster

Is the understatement of the millenia given the US' total historical emmissions

Seeing how the US has withdrawn from the Paris Climate Agreement, which itself is the bare minimum of symbolic actions and really lacks any real enforcement mechanisms, and seeing how, through Democrat and Republican administrations alike it has continued to double down on fracking and offshore drilling, i'd say the US political elite appears to be trying to deliberately do everything they can to make their emissions rise. If despite all of this emissions are still going down, i have to wonder how much of that is simply due to the de-industrialization and outsourcing of industry that has been happening for the past three decades. In which case no credit can or should be given to the US on this issue whatsoever, because all they did was export the problem so someone else would have to try and solve it.