Carbon Emissions

) which is approximately 360 billion pounds of gas (each gallon of gas is 5.8 to 6.5 pounds). Water isn’t normally thought of as a pollutant.  Up till November 13, the EPA refused to think of carbon dioxide as a pollutant, but big storms and rising sea levels are among the problems associated with global [...]

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Popular Logistics favors regulating carbon emissions, however, we would start with Coal, Nuclear, and factory farms, and increasing the CAFE standards and auto mileage requirements, not “modest” ranches of 25 or 50 head of cattle. Popular Logistics also recognizes a distinction between carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels, the nuclear fuel cycle, and the environmental effects of mining, and carbon emissions from cattle ranching and hog farming, especially from organic farming. We would therefore suggest that the EPA create a carbon offset program that would allow ranchers and hog farmers to offset the carbon emissions of their livestock with trees, wind turbines, and photovolotaic solar installations.

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