The U.S. EPA estimates that recycling and composting in the United States in 2010 reduced emissions of climate-changing carbon dioxide by an amount roughly equal to that emitted by 36 million ____.

A. hydraulically fractured gas wells
B. barrels of oil
C. tons of coal
D. passenger vehicles
E. power plants


Answer: D

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