Service Sector Not Off the Hook When It Comes to Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The furls of gas that billow from smokestacks on power plants and other heavy industries are a visible source of the greenhouse gas emissions warming our world. But the economy is filled with invisible releases of carbon dioxide and other climate-change-inducing gases that lurk behind everyday products and services. New research shows that the service sector--such as banking, hospitals, computers and retail stores, among other businesses--is responsible for more than one third of industrial greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.
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