The pandemic isn’t over, but its emissions reduction is

The pandemic isn’t over, but its emissions reduction is

“I can tell you that, nationwide, emissions are 3 percent higher already in the first two months of 2021 than they were in the first two—which were unaffected by the pandemic—of 2020,” said Steven J. Davis, [associate professor], of Earth system science with the University of California, Irvine. “We’re bouncing back.”