No Drop in U.S. Carbon Footprint Expected Through 2050, Energy Department Says

The U.S. carbon footprint will hardly go down for the foreseeable future and will be slightly higher in 2050 than it is now, according to a new projection by the Energy Department’s data office. That would single-handedly exhaust much of the world’s carbon budget by midcentury and end an era where the U.S. was a world leader in reducing emissions.