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U.S. emissions probably won’t increase under Trump, study says. But they won’t fall, either.

The Washington Post: Carbon-cutting efforts in the United States may be more resilient to Trump administration policies than expected, according to a new study. But under even one term for President Trump, the nation will still fall behind on an ambitious Obama-era plan for reducing emissions over the next few decades.

Despite the Trump administration’s large-scale rollback of environmental policies, and the president’s withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, U.S. emissions are likely to remain relatively flat over the next few years, according to research published last week in the journal Climate Policy. Researchers at North Carolina State University argue that market forces are likely to bolster the expansion of clean energy and other emissions-cutting efforts, particularly in the electricity sector, against changes in federal policy.

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