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Study finds cities can reduce CO2 more easily from residential conservation than transportation

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Unaccompanied by modal diversion programs, the stand-alone potential for local compact growth programs to reduce auto-based CO 2 emissions falls into a more modest range of 0 to 7 percent depending on the metropolitan area. The CPP is intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. —David Hsu, co-author.

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

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10 11 kg with no size changes)—the equivalent to adding three to ten coal-fired power plants to the electricity grid each year. The CAFE standards for 2011-2016 are footprint-based—i.e., L/100km) by 2016. The research was funded by the Michigan Memorial Phoenix Energy Institute and the National Science Foundation.

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