Correction to Oil Companies Defend Big Bets on Gas Story on Tuesday

China is the largest emitter of CO2 in the world, and the U.S. is the second largest. "Oil Companies Defend Big Bets on Gas," at 1504 GMT on Oct. 17 incorrectly said that the U.S. still had the largest carbon emissions in the eighth paragraph.

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October 18, 2017 05:49 ET (09:49 GMT)