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简介：The U.S. is second only to China in emitting gases that cause global warming. Above, the smoke stacks at American Electric Power's Mountaineer power plant in West Virginia.




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Kevin Kennedy
California
the World Resources Institute
Congressmen
U.S.
South Africa

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Kennedy says that the president's recently enacted fuel-efficiency standards for cars and light trucks will put a meaningful dent in our emissions. And rules about power plants, due out early next year, could also reduce carbon dioxide emissions. How much of course depends upon how stringent the rules are. States, especially California, have laws designed to lower their emissions in the coming decades. California represents an eighth of the U.S. economy, so that's a significant piece of the overall U.S. picture. But even with all those state and federal actions taken together, the World Resources Institute figures that the nation can't achieve a 17 percent reduction in emissions by 2020. New federal laws would need to fill the gap, and Kennedy says prospects for that aren't good. Nowhere else in the world do you see a political debate about whether climate science is real, whether or not the climate is actually changing. That political climate makes it very difficult to move forward in a comprehensive way, and that is something that we need to address in this country. Part of the problem is, even Congressmen who accept the science of climate change are concerned that if the United States dramatically slashes its emissions, that could harm economic competitiveness. And, by itself, U.S. action won't do much to slow global warming. Meaningful action requires an agreement that extends far beyond our national borders.And that brings us back to the climate talks in South Africa.