Green Car Congress
APRIL 30, 2014
Alaska Airlines had the most efficient US domestic operations in both 2011 and 2012, the same position it occupied in a 2010 benchmark assessment published by the ICCT last year. Alaska is very efficient in large part because it operates a new Boeing fleet and uses turboprops on regional flights. Earlier post.) Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 22, 2017
If current rates of decline continue through 2020, the state will need to reduce emissions at a rate of 4.97% each year in the decade between 2020 and 2030, and produce even steeper declines in the period from 2030 to 2050, if it is to meet current climate goals. But the effects of these efforts seem to be reaching a plateau.
Teslarati
MARCH 1, 2022
GOES-T is a powerful weather satellite that will be responsible for monitoring weather patterns and improving forecasts across the Western United States and North America, including Alaska and Hawaii. The two previous missions, GOES-16 (GOES-R) and GOES-17 (GOES-S), also launched aboard Atlas V rockets in 2016 and 2018.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 3, 2015
As drilling technology advances, conventional oil reserves become harder to find, and climate change contributes to melting sea ice, the Arctic has moved up on the list of priorities in oil company board rooms. After having watched Shell fumble its Arctic campaign, Statoil put its drilling plans off the coast of Alaska on ice.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 27, 2010
US Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) When Congress passed the Clean Air Act, it never gave EPA the explicit authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions for the purpose of stopping global climate change. mpg in 2016 (39 mpg for cars, 30 mpg for trucks), or approximately 250 grams CO 2 /mile.
Baua Electric
APRIL 2, 2024
But fear of flying hardly seems irrational, what with reports of aircraft malfunctions, overworked air traffic controllers and the sense that climate change is making turbulence worse. For instance: On Jan. Everyone — 367 passengers and 12 crew members — on the Japanese Airlines flight survived.) I could really use a cigarette.”
Green Car Congress
MARCH 30, 2011
We’re also exploring and assessing new frontiers for oil and gas development from Alaska to the Mid- and South Atlantic. We have to discover and produce cleaner, renewable sources of energy with less of the carbon pollution that threatens our climate. But let’s be honest—it’s not the long-term solution to our energy challenge.
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