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Why reducing carbon emissions from cars and trucks will be so hard

  • Written by David Keith, Assistant Professor of System Dynamics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The race to get rid of transportation emissions is getting off to a slow start.AP Photo/Terrin Waack

A growing number of cities, states and countries aim to dramatically reduce or even eliminate carbon emissions to avert catastrophic levels of climate change.

Ideas about how to get this done as soon as possible, including those Democratic lawmakers...

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