Report touts benefits of telecommuting. Workers save gas, reduce carbon emissions
| September 20, 2007 |  View for printing |
Telecommuting saves 840 million gallons of gas a year, reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by nearly 14 million metric tons, a study released Wednesday found.
The study, done by Tiax of Cambridge, Mass., for the Consumer Electronics Association, studied the impact of telecommuting and electronic commerce on greenhouse-gas emissions. There are an estimated 3.9 million telecommuters in the United States, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's Residential Energy Consumption Survey.
By Matt Nauman Mercury News
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