Climate Change Legislation and Regulation: Impacts on Transportation and Manufacturing

摘要

In the universe of prime suspects for greenhouse gas (GHG) controls, the transportation and manufacturing sectors at first blush seemingly emerge as relative afterthoughts in the legislative and regulatory agenda. While both sectors each contribute roughly one-third of the nation's GHG emissions, they are most often overshadowed by approaches to climate change controls on the utility sector, which contributes a greater percentage of emissions and which has been front and center in the discussions so far. Even the agriculture sector, which contributes only a sliver's share of emissions compared to transportation and manufacturing, at times attracts more of the debate in assessing impacts and approaches to climate change.