Full Title: Electric Utilities and the Future of Clean Transportation
Author(s): Myriam Alexander-Kearns and Alison Cassady
Publisher(s): Center for American Progress
Publication Date: April 1, 2016
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Description (excerpt):
As part of the global coalition of countries committed to fighting climate change, the United States has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 26 percent to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025. To meet that goal, the Obama administration has taken action to clean up the power sector, make cars and trucks more energy efficient, and reduce emissions from other parts of the economy. To avoid the worst impacts of climate change, however, the United States—and its global partners—will have to achieve much steeper emissions reductions in the coming decades.
The transportation sector accounts for more than one-quarter of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, the majority of which come from gasoline-powered cars and light trucks. One critical path toward a cleaner transportation sector relies on the increased presence of electric cars and trucks, running on electricity generated from an increasingly cleaner power sector.