FILE PHOTO: An aerial view of The Villages retirement community in Central Florida, June 27, 2015. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A house with a white picket fence in the verdant suburbs has long been an American dream. It could also be a major hurdle for U.S. chances of cutting climate-warming emissions, researchers at the University of Michigan said in a study on Monday.
U.S. households account for one-fifth of the country's total greenhouse gas emissions, thanks partly to Americans' general preference for bigger houses and spacious suburbs. Those preferences also translated into an emissions divide between the rich and the poor, with wealthier households in recent years emitting around 25% more than their lower-income counterparts in smaller homes, the researchers said. (Study: https://bit.ly/3hgPQXO)
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