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Climate Action Plan In The Greater Yellowstone Area
In 2007, the Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee Sustainable Operations Subcommittee began inventory on greenhouse gas emissions from federal operations, and discovered that greenhouse gas emissions totaled over twenty-six-thousand metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents. On each of their units, the Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee managers have pledged to achieve a minimum goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 21 to 36 percent below the 2007 baseline. Environmental Protection Specialist for Yellowstone National Park, Jim Evanoff says their climate action plan is one of the first of its kind in the country.
Evanoff says this is accomplished through lots of different ways.
Evanoff says the new climate action plan equates to removing 1,856 passenger cars from the road each year, or saving 51.5 rail cars worth of coal from being burned. To learn more about the plan the entire interview is attached below
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