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MAY 3, 2023

announced that its subsidiary SoCal Biomethane will supply renewable natural gas (RNG) as facilitated by renewable fuels marketer Anew Climate to FuelCell Energy’s Tri-gen system to produce carbon-negative hydrogen and electricity for Toyota Motor North America, Inc.’s Anaergia Inc. The fuel cells will also produce a net 2.3

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Emissions reductions (per km of travel) from the Margrethe Maersk as a result of the State of California fuel sulfur regulation (gray), vessel speed reduction program (white) and combined (black). Credit: ACS, Lack et al. Click to enlarge. EFs for particulate organic matter decreased by 70%. Black carbon (BC) EFs were reduced by 41%.

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Pollution Fuel California Emissions 199

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JULY 9, 2009

Requiring ships to use marine fuel with 0.1% They applied the global climate model ECHAM5/MESSy1-MADE to geospatial emissions inventories to determine worldwide concentrations of particular matter (PM 2.5 ) from oceangoing vessels. Particulate matter from ship emissions is related to the sulfur content of marine fuel.

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JUNE 25, 2018

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has awarded $20 million in grants to accelerate California’s transition to zero-emission off-road equipment in the freight, agriculture and waterborne mass transit sectors. million; Grant: $772,555; Grantee: San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District). million; Grant: $5.3

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Los Angeles Long Beach Transportation Emissions 220

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APRIL 1, 2009

Markey of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee on Tuesday released a draft of far-reaching energy and climate legislation that targets job creation, promotes renewables and energy efficiency, and places limits on emissions of greenhouse gases. Any Federal vehicle standards are to achieve at least the results of the California standards.

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Climate Standards Carbon California 186

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The two areas suffer from some of the worst air quality in the country due to a number of factors, such as meteorology, geography, climate and weather. There have been vast improvements in air quality in California over the previous decades. Children and the elderly are most impacted by ozone pollution. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists from the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the California Air Resources Board tracked variations in the amount of lead transported across the Pacific over time. Tamalpais, in Marin County. One site was on Mt. —John Christensen. Stephanie A. Ewing, John N.

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Asia Transportation Insight San Francisco 199

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

An international study of 10 global cities found that a balance of geophysical factors (climate, access to resources, and gateway status) and technical factors (power generation, urban design, and waste processing) determine the greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) attributable to cities. Diane Pataki, University of California, Irvine.

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Emissions Global Gas Los Angeles 199

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OCTOBER 2, 2013

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has released the public discussion draft of the required update to the AB 32 Scoping Plan. The Scoping Plan describes the comprehensive range of efforts California must take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and meet the state’s long-term goals to combat climate change.

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Climate Change 2020 Climate Transportation 220

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MAY 5, 2016

The State of California is awarding $23.6 Demonstration trucks and charging infrastructure will be used in all five air districts, providing emission reduction benefits in key areas of California with drayage truck activity. The California Sustainable Freight Action Plan to support that transition was made public Tuesday.

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Peterbilt Kenworth California BYD 150

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

Ballard Power Systems will provide fuel cell modules to power two port terminal yard trucks as part of a project being managed by GTI and partially funded by the California Air Resources Board (CARB). million dollars to GTI for the Zero Emissions for California Ports (ZECAP) Project. Earlier post.). CARB has preliminarily awarded $5.7

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Los Angeles Fuel Power Powered 220

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AUGUST 9, 2012

Developed through the International Association of Ports & Harbors’ World Ports Climate Initiative, the ESI program is the first of its kind in North America and the Pacific Rim. Ocean going vessels (OGVs) are the single largest source of Southern California goods movement air emissions and they.

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APRIL 21, 2009

Until then, we also recommend you look at the FAQ at the Climate Progress Blog and the FAQ by Hybrids-Plus , an after-market converter of hybrid cars, for answers to many questions! Dont PHEVs just shift pollution from gasoline cars to power plants? But its monumentally less pollution , even on the national (half-coal) grid.

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APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Waxman of California and Edward J. Western Climate Initiative (WCI).

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Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate 244