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Because articles like this are deceptive. In terms of climate change: 1. You need to look at all sources of carbon emissions (not just electricity). 2. You need to look at the whole world--not just the United States.

Overall it turns out there is a modest improvement in the U.S. and the other Western industrialized countries.[And even with the modest improvement in the Western industrialized countries, they are still putting massive amount of carbon into the atmosphere every year.]

However there is a worsening in the third world--and they are responsible for more emissions that the Western industrialized countries. Thus for example you see articles like:

Mexico was once a climate leader – now it's betting big on coal

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/15/mexico-coal-fo...

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> However there is a worsening in the third world--and they are responsible for more emissions that the Western industrialized countries.

That's true for new emissions, but remember that various greenhouse gases once emitted stay around in the atmosphere for a while.

For CO2, a while is 300-1000 years. The US plus Europe emitted about 58% of the CO2 that is currently in the atmosphere.