Here's the report that says this, from Bloomberg, the financial analysts:
http://www.bcse.org/pdfviewer/php/simple_document.php?doc=BCSE_BNEF_Sustainable_Energy_in_America_2013_Factbook.pdf
Here's a short Guardian article that gives the main details:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/01/us-carbon-emissions-lowest-levels?intcmp=122
The main difficulty, as I've mentioned elsewhere on this blog, is that Chinese and Indian and other developing country emissions will fill in behind the US, I'm afraid.
The remedy is a strong international agreement, or, failing that, some kind of climate free trade zone scheme, as explained in earlier posts.
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