Austin based ride-share services aims to limit air pollution and traffic congestion

AUSTIN (KXAN) — At first thought, you may think ride-share services have helped the environment by potentially limiting the amount of pollution exhausted from cars on the roads such as carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas contributing to warming our planet. Well, that's not true. New research from Carnegie Mellon University found that services like Lyft and Uber are making pollution worse. These services are emitting 20% more greenhouse gas pollution compared to trips they displace. The r