Americans’ Contributions to Climate Change: Opportunities for Meeting Carbon Targets
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Acknowledgments
The writers wish to acknowledge funding sponsorship from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), Southwest Region University Transportation Center, the Texas Department of Transportation, and the National Science Foundation. We also appreciate the contributions of UT Austin’s Matthew Bomberg, Dr. Michael Webber, Dr. Jeffrey Siegel, and Annette Perrone, along with valuable suggestions by Dr. Phil Patterson (DOE) and Dr. Danilo Santini (Argonne National Laboratories). Several pieces of this work are included in a larger report, commissioned by the NAS’s Committee for the Study on the Relationships Among Development Patterns, VMT, and Energy Conservation.
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