Canada Announces Carbon Emission Caps for Oil and Gas Sectors | The Trudeau government has focused on the oil and gas production industries because the large amounts of energy they use make them the c (www.nytimes.com)

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I think they're covering scope 1 and 2 emissions, but not scope 3. That is to say that they're trying to limit emissions during extraction, transportation of fossil fuels, and refining (and from the electricity those use) but not from when the fossil fuels are burned.

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