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EPA: US greenhouse gases up 2% in 2013; increased coal consumption, cool winter

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Total US greenhouse emissions were 6,673 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2013, an increase of 2% (127.9 Commercial aircraft emissions increased slightly between 2012 and 2013, but have decreased 18% since 2007. MMT CO 2 Eq.) Total US emissions have increased by 5.9% from 1990 to 2013. Data Explorer.

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Climate Disclosure Standards Board Proposes New Framework for Data Reporting at World Business Summit

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—Paul Dickinson, Chief Executive of the Carbon Disclosure Project. CDSB was founded in January 2007 at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. CDSB’s proposed framework will be available for download 26 May at www.cdsb-global.org and comments are invited by 25 September 2009.

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Study projects global carbon footprint from ICT will be equivalent to half of transportation’s current level by 2040

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in 2007 to exceed 14% of the 2016-level worldwide GHGE by 2040, accounting for more than half of the current relative contribution of the whole transportation sector, according to a new study from McMaster University in Canada. ICT footprint as a percentage of total footprint projected through 2040 using both an exponential and linear fits.

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

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2 PIA Meets CARB Move CARB Forward AltCar Expo 2007 Arnold Amped Up? Real Life EV Stories A Case for Electricity Plug In America Positions Energy Policy Frequently Asked Questions About Plug-in Buses Who Killed the Electric Car? 1 Point Reyes EVs Did You Know? Newsletter Vol. New 100K Club Member RAV4EV in Japan Newsletter Vol.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. First Escape PHEV delivered to SCE Nov 2007; 20 in 2008-2009. What are we really doing and how big of a carbon footprint are we going to leave with this?"

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Smart-grid project matches wind to electric cars | Green Tech - CNET News

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In an interview on Tuesday, Schurr said that he planned to tell members of Congress that smart-grid technologies are already available and can deliver substantial improvements in efficiency. For a consumer, it can mean tools to better manage home energy use; for a utility it can be tools to ratchet back energy consumption during peak times.

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