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Shrinking the Carbon Footprint of Metropolitan America
A recent study from the Brookings Institute reiterates our point that cities have an important role to play: "Rising energy prices, growing dependence on imported fuels, and accelerating global climate change make the nation'€™s growth patterns unsustainable."However they note a few problems:"Numerous market and policy distortions inhibit metropolitan actors from more aggressively addressing the nation'€™s climate challenge. Economy-wide problems include underpriced energy, underfunded energy research, missing federal standards, distorted utility regulations, and inadequate information. Policy impediments include a bias against public transit, inadequate federal ...
Source: TreeHugger