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electric sector reduced its carbon emissions by 26 percent from 2005 to 2018. Preliminary estimates for 2019 indicate that this trend is accelerating, with another 10 percent drop just from 2018 to 2019. gas system each year. The Majority of Direct Building Emissions Are Coming From Burning NaturalGas.
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“In my entire time working on these campaigns I never heard mention of oil and gas companies.” Documents made public by the Senate investigation, however, show that Exxon knew in 2018 that capturing carbon might be hard, and modelled a much smaller deployment of carbon capture under a low-emissions scenario than rival Shell.
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One study estimated that in 2018, the LCFS program resulted in consumers paying an extra 12¢ per gallon of gasoline. Similarly, consumers may appreciate the effect that the credit price cap will have on the cost of traditional fuels, as LCFS compliance costs generally have been passed through to the pump.
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