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EPA GHG Inventory shows US GHG down 1.7% y-o-y in 2019, down 13% from 2005

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Greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 (after accounting for sequestration from the land sector) were 13% below 2005 levels. While an increased demand for travel has led to increasing CO 2 emissions since 1990, improvements in average new vehicle fuel economy since 2005 has slowed the rate of increase of CO 2 emissions. from 2018 to 2019.

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API: total US petroleum demand topped 20.8 mb/d in July, highest since 2005; on-road fuel demand down

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year-over-year increase and the highest demand for the month since 2005, according to the latest Monthly Statistical Report released by the American Petroleum Institute (API). compared with July 2018—and the highest demand for the month of July since 2005. Total US petroleum demand averaged 20.8 This was a decrease of 0.9%

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Production of crude oil as a percentage of proved reserves: Recent worldwide and US trends

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In this analysis, I examined the relation between crude-oil production and crude-oil reserves in the world overall and in the United States alone. This variable is inversely related to the reserves-to-production ratio.) Production (billion barrels). Production as % of reserves. Production (billion barrels).

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DOE: US net petroleum imports negative for 2020

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This includes crude oil and petroleum products. Net imports peaked in 2005 at 12.5 Total petroleum products supplied is the sum of the products supplied for each petroleum product, crude oil, unfinished oils, and gasoline blending components. This also includes petroleum products supplied for non?combustion

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Toyota's EV Battery Production Efforts are Looking Up

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The Japanese auto giant recently announced its acquisition of Primearth EV Energy from Panasonic, which it said would give it a significant boost toward EV battery mass production. The company already owned 60 percent of Primearth, starting with a 40 percent stake when it was founded in 1996, climbing to 60 percent in 2005.

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Study: surface ozone in India in 2005 damaged 6M tonnes of crops, enough to feed 94M people in poverty

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New research shows that ozone pollution damaged millions of tons of wheat, rice, soybean and cotton crops in India in 2005. million US tons) of India’s wheat, rice, soybean and cotton crops in 2005, according to a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters , a journal of the American Geophysical Union. million metric ton (3.6

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Senators introduce bipartisan bill to boost production, use of renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel

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The bill would require the Department of Energy to track foreign imports and domestic production of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel. It will also offer incentives to boost production of additional renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel here in the United States. Our bipartisan bill will eliminate that red tape.

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