Portland climate progress stalls thanks to rising transportation emissions

Greenhouse gas emissions reductions have stalled in Multnomah County, and how people and goods move around is to blame.

“Transportation sector emissions are increasing dramatically, currently 8 percent over 1990 levels, and 14 percent over their lowest levels in 2012,” Portland’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, which tracks city and county progress in meeting climate goals, reported this week.

That trend helped arrest a more or less steady decline in overall GHG emissions that ran…

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