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Earth Day 2024: each day is about reducing emissions | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

Although mainstream America largely remained oblivious to environmental concerns, the stage had been set for change by the publication of Rachel Carson’s New York Times bestseller Silent Spring in 1962. Countries must produce new national climate plans that align with limiting the rise in global temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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California ARB soliciting research suggestions for FY 2012-2013 plan; sustainable communities, behavior, pollutant exposure, air pollution science, GHG targets

Green Car Congress

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) is soliciting research suggestions for the Fiscal Year 2012-2013 Annual Research Plan in the form of brief conceptual descriptions that address specified research gaps and support the Board’s ongoing regulatory and policy priorities. The deadline to submit research concepts is 31 January 2012.

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Green Star to Demonstrate Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

President Barack Obamas New Energy For America program calls for deployment of 1 million plug-in hybrid vehicles by 2015, and on March 19, 2009, he announced programs directing $2.4 Night time electric power is available from many renewable resources therefore reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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Lillian Light Is No Lightweight - The Environmental Lioness of the South Bay is Fired Up, Ready To Go!

Creative Greenius

That was our first Earth Day event which we called “Saving Spaceship Earth.&# In October of that same year we offered the forum, “Nuclear Threats Haunt America Today.&#. Mayors’ Climate Protection Agreement. Then in 2003 we presented a forum on Iraq, “Voices From the Streets.&# They coined that name.

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

Green Car Congress

Support for this use of allowance value stems from the idea that the climate-regulating services of the atmosphere are a common property resource. Transparency, longevity and certainty (“TLC”) drives investments, according to a policy “green paper” by DB Climate Change Advisors, a unit of Deutsche Bank.

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