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Study: California will hit climate targets >100 years too late at current pace of reductions; transportation, wildfires & landfills

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2019

California will meet its 2030 climate targets more than three decades late, in 2061, and could be more than 100 years late in meeting its 2050 target if the average rate of emissions reductions from the past year hold steady, according to a new study tracking more than a decade of environmental and economic indicators in the state.

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Ricardo study predicts that BRIC automotive markets will be eclipsed by the “Rising-15”

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

A study by Ricardo Strategic Consulting has concluded that while sluggish automotive demand in Europe, Japan and North America will be balanced by the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) markets through 2020, thereafter the ‘Rising-15’ nations become the engine for profitable growth—assuming political stability. Click to enlarge.

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U-M study finds current CAFE standards create profit incentive for larger vehicles

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DECEMBER 7, 2011

The current vehicle footprint-based Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards create a financial incentive for automakers to increase vehicle size, except under certain limited conditions of consumer preference for vehicle size, according to a study by University of Michigan researchers Kate Whitefoot and Steven Skerlos.

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New Study Finds Flaw in Carbon Accounting for Bioenergy, Another Contends That Indirect Land Use Change Emissions for Biofuels Will Be Up To Twice Direct Land Use Change Emissions

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

Thirteen scientists and land use experts conclude in a new paper that an important but fixable error in legal accounting rules used to measure compliance with carbon limits for bioenergy could undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging deforestation. Their paper is published in the 23 Oct. Earlier post.).

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Daimler balks at use of low GWP R-1234yf refrigerant, citing new internal safety findings; wants to continue using R-134a

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Due to the new findings of this study and the high safety demands at Mercedes-Benz, Daimler says that it will not use this chemical in its products. Daimler announced that findings from a new internal investigation have raised questions on the safe usage of R-1234yf as a replacement refrigerant in mobile air conditioning (MAC) systems.

International

International 2009 Legal Climate

EPA and California ARB charge Volkswagen with using software defeat device to circumvent NOx testing in 4-cylinder 2.0L diesels

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

The allegations cover roughly 482,000 diesel passenger cars sold in the United States since 2008. The alleged violations do not present a safety hazard; the cars remain legal to drive and resell. VW may be liable for civil penalties and injunctive relief for the violations alleged in the NOV. Beetle (Model Years 2009 – 2015).

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EPA Diesel California 2015

The Case for Nuclear Cargo Ships

Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

The IMO’s previous goal was a 50 percent reduction by 2050 in comparison with 2008 levels. John MacNeill Also later this year, the Italian shipbuilding company Fincantieri and Newcleo expect to wrap up a feasibility study to assess the practicality of deploying a 30-megawatt reactor on marine vessels. Where does the crew go?

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Molten Salt Mariner South Korea Water

Utah Water Quality Board upholds issuance of permit for oil sands mine in Utah

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

At specific issue in the WQB decision was a 2008 permit-by-rule granted by DWQ to USOS for the project on the Tavaputs Plateau near PR Spring. In 2008, USOS submitted a permit-by-rule demonstration to DWQ after requesting that the PR Spring operation be considered as a permit-by-rule facility under Utah Ground Water Protection Rules.

Oil-Sands

Oil-Sands Utah Water Oil

Massachusetts sets state GHG emissions limit for 2020 at 25% below 1990 levels, releases plan with additional measures, including Pay As You Drive auto insurance

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Ian Bowles has set the statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limit for 2020 required by the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2008 at 25% below 1990 levels, the maximum authorized by the Act, saying that measures already in place will get Massachusetts much of the way toward that goal.

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Massachusetts 2020 Emissions Auto

Met Office: Current Decade Already Hottest On Record

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DECEMBER 9, 2009

2009 has also been warmer than 2008, due in part to El Niño conditions in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. The Met Office is currently negotiating with national meteorological and hydrological services that maintain the stations, and plan to release the remaining records as soon as they are legally able to do so. “

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TfL To Begin Testing of Intelligent Speed Adaptation Technology

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MAY 11, 2009

The unit can be disabled at the touch of a button, at which point it reverts to an advisory status where the current, legal speed limit is simply displayed as a driver aid. They partners commissioned the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds to produce the report.

London

London 2001 Transportation Emissions

EPA Administrator broadly outlines Trump Administration thinking on fuel economy standards and California

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The NYU School of Law’s Institute for Policy Integrity published a study last year concluding the plain text of the Clean Air Act does not allow EPA to revoke a waiver. Bush administration denied California’s waiver in 2008 and California challenged that decision, but the case was never decided. —Andrew Wheeler. The George W.

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Fuel Economy Standards California EPA

Cutting Non-CO2 Pollutants Can Delay Abrupt Climate Change; The Fast Action Climate Agenda

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OCTOBER 14, 2009

2009), reproduced from Ramanathan and Feng (2008) Click to enlarge. A binding legal agreement exists that can cut HFCs now—the Montreal Protocol ozone treaty—and many alternatives to HFCs have already been developed and are waiting for the right regulatory incentive from the Montreal Protocol to be deployed. From Molina et al.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Pollution Ozone

Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

as compared to 1990 emissions, to be achieved between 2008 and 2012. Although technological yield gains had offset the losses, the study established a clear and simple correlation between increasing temperatures and crop yields. April, 2008 : In an article entitled Dangerous Assumptions ( earlier post ), Roger Pielke, Jr.,

Climate

Climate Climate Change 2009 Emissions

Perspective: The Role of Offsets in Climate Change Legislation

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MARCH 6, 2010

reforestation); Limiting deforestation by purchasing forested property and preserving the forests with legal and enforcement mechanisms; Setting aside croplands from agricultural production to rebuild carbon in the soil and vegetation; and. A 2008 EPA study analyzed the economic impacts of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008 (S.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Emissions 2008

Group of 285 global investors with more than $20T in assets under management calls for urgent action on investment-grade climate change and energy policies; guidelines for governments

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OCTOBER 24, 2011

Investor support for climate action as expressed in such a statement has more than doubled since November 2008, when 150 investors with $9 trillion in assets under management first came together to urge government leaders to act on climate change.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Global Energy

A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

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NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Steven Cherry: There's a process in legal cases, especially lawsuits, that involves an incredibly tedious process of finding and extracting information from sometimes enormous masses of data that by law, the other side has to provide. Learn more about simulation apps and find this and other case studies at comsol.com/blog/apps.

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Mercedes-Benz presents autonomous Future Truck 2025 research vehicle; “Highway Pilot”

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JULY 4, 2014

Mercedes-Benz will unveil the complete study of the Future Truck 2025 at the International Commercial Vehicle Show (IAA) in September. The sensor and camera technology is active throughout the speed range from standstill to the legally permitted maximum truck speed of 80 km/h. guard rails or vegetation).

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Ethanol Groups File Suit Challenging Constitutionality of California Low Carbon Fuel Standard

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DECEMBER 25, 2009

The OAL ensures that agency regulations are clear, necessary, legally valid, and available to the public. NERA Studies on Timing of GHG Releases. RFA has repeatedly requested that ARB and Purdue add CRP land, idle cropland, and cropland pasture to the model’s land inventory since the Summer of 2008. The Liska et al. gCO 2 e/MJ.

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Carbon California Standards Fuel

Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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MARCH 22, 2010

A recent study of approximately a hundred offset projects by the journal Climate Policy found that just 60 percent of projects actually provided evidence that the CDM funding made a difference, and that 40 percent of companies would likely have reduced emissions anyway. FLAWS IN THE UN APPROVAL PROCESS FOR CARBON OFFSETS.

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Carbon Climate Change Climate Emissions

Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 10, 2022

After a caning for truancy in his third year of high school that served as a wake-up call, Tan settled down to his studies and completed his O-level exams. An appeals court in the United Kingdom, however, was not persuaded, and Trek lost its patent there in 2008.

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Singapore 2000 Store IDEA

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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APRIL 10, 2010

The first auction for allowances was held on September 25, 2008. Since September 2008, RGGI has raised $583 million for the states in these quarterly auctions of permits with between 65 and 70 percent of cap-and-trade proceeds going back into the clean energy economy. RGGI: A Case Study. nationals and legal residents.

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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

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AUGUST 30, 2009

Current Legal Requirement for Use of Anhydrous Ethanol in the United States. The new study, co-sponsored by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE), also found that mid-range ethanol blends reduce harmful tailpipe emissions. Until fairly recently, these US motor vehicles were non-FFVs. Conclusion.

Transportation

Transportation Fuel Renewable Gasoline-Electric

Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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DECEMBER 20, 2009

Recent studies show that those developing countries that strengthened IPRs regimes experienced an increase in licensing agreements with parties in developed nations, enabling firms from developing nations to effectively access and exploit new technologies and know-how. The SABMF(s) could be manufactured in Lafayette, Louisiana for export.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Carbon Emissions

EV Driven

Study: California will hit climate targets >100 years too late at current pace of reductions; transportation, wildfires & landfills

Ricardo study predicts that BRIC automotive markets will be eclipsed by the “Rising-15”

U-M study finds current CAFE standards create profit incentive for larger vehicles

New Study Finds Flaw in Carbon Accounting for Bioenergy, Another Contends That Indirect Land Use Change Emissions for Biofuels Will Be Up To Twice Direct Land Use Change Emissions

Daimler balks at use of low GWP R-1234yf refrigerant, citing new internal safety findings; wants to continue using R-134a

EPA and California ARB charge Volkswagen with using software defeat device to circumvent NOx testing in 4-cylinder 2.0L diesels

The Case for Nuclear Cargo Ships

Utah Water Quality Board upholds issuance of permit for oil sands mine in Utah

Massachusetts sets state GHG emissions limit for 2020 at 25% below 1990 levels, releases plan with additional measures, including Pay As You Drive auto insurance

Met Office: Current Decade Already Hottest On Record

TfL To Begin Testing of Intelligent Speed Adaptation Technology

EPA Administrator broadly outlines Trump Administration thinking on fuel economy standards and California

Cutting Non-CO2 Pollutants Can Delay Abrupt Climate Change; The Fast Action Climate Agenda

Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

Perspective: The Role of Offsets in Climate Change Legislation

Group of 285 global investors with more than $20T in assets under management calls for urgent action on investment-grade climate change and energy policies; guidelines for governments

A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

Mercedes-Benz presents autonomous Future Truck 2025 research vehicle; “Highway Pilot”

Ethanol Groups File Suit Challenging Constitutionality of California Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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