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Revealed: How Big Dairy Is Milking Net Zero

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Dairy is a serious, but under-discussed source of planet-warming gases. Cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas that absorbs more atmospheric heat than carbon and is currently responsible for 25 percent of all global warming today. But who is in this group and what do the various organizations backing it really want?

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Decades of Lobbying Weakened Americans’ Gas Mileage and Turbocharged Pain at the Pump

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From 1975 to 1987, average fuel economy rose quickly — but then it declined between 1988 and 2004, as the Energy Department reported last year. A number of organizations with ties to the Koch network also joined in lobbying to weaken clean car standards, as DeSmog previously reported. Credit: Sicnag ( CC BY 2.0 ).