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MARCH 2, 2013

Comparison of proposed Keystone XL route to previously proposed project segment. Aside from the potential construction and spill impacts of the pipeline, the scope of the climate change impacts have become the most contentious and politicized issue surrounding the pipeline. Source: Draft SEIS. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

North Dakota-based Red Trail Energy (RTE), which since 2007 has operated an ethanol production facility with annual production of about 60 million gallons per year, is proposing sequestration of CO 2 produced from starch fermentation to lower the overall carbon intensity of the fuel for the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS).

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AUGUST 26, 2013

Comparison between estimated EI BC and measured EI BC derived FOA3 (black open box), the FOA3 approach with the updated SN-CI correlation (blue triangle), and estimates obtained from the new FOX method (red circle) that are not dependent on SN. Credit: ACS, Stettler et al. Click to enlarge. These are a factor of ?2.7 near the ground).

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APRIL 14, 2020

The 2020 edition of US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) comprehensive annual report on nationwide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions shows that emissions increased from 2017 to 2018 by 3.1% (after accounting for sequestration from the land sector). through the uptake of carbon and storage in forests, vegetation and soils.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

System boundaries (red line) schematic for liquid fuel carbon balance. For biofuels, because biogenic carbon is automatically credited within a product lifecycle, the boundary effectively excludes vehicle end-use CO 2 emissions. DeCicco 2013. Click to enlarge. —DeCicco 2013.

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MARCH 16, 2021

The California Energy Commission (CEC), California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and California Air Resources Board (CARB) released the first joint agency report and a summary document examining how the state’s electricity system can become carbon-free by 2045. California’s electricity mix is already more than 60% carbon-free.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. We need both a policy like a carbon tax and to put more R&D money into renewables.

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APRIL 30, 2019

As states take the lead in confronting climate change, a flagship policy is often Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS). A new study analyzing data from the 29 states and District of Columbia with mandatory RPS policies finds that the policies come at a high cost to consumers and are inefficient in reducing carbon emissions.

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APRIL 4, 2011

Climate response to non-CO 2 vehicle emissions. Global and regional zonal mean temperature changes relative to 2010 due to non-CO 2. vehicle emissions under the baseline scenario (a) and the difference between the tight-standard and baseline scenarios (b). Shindell et al. Click to enlarge. Shindell et al.

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OCTOBER 16, 2013

It doesn’t look any different in this recent Google satellite shot than it did in 1965 when the white and grey ash used to fall from the skies and cover our clothes, hair cars, trees, streets and everything else under the chimneys each buildings’ incinerators spewed their emissions out of. org Blog action day 2013 human rights'

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AUGUST 20, 2018

Global and regional-mean temperature responses to identical aerosol emissions in different regions. However, aerosols have a much shorter lifespan in the atmosphere than the gases responsible for global warming, resulting in an atmospheric distribution that varies by region, especially in comparison to carbon dioxide.

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MAY 20, 2015

Otherwise, fuel switching can produce net climate damages (more radiative forcing) for decades. since natural gas has relatively low carbon intensity, releasing less carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) per unit of usable energy than other fossil fuels, it is often assumed that switching to natural gas is comparatively beneficial for the climate.

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APRIL 27, 2012

When peat swamps are drained for agriculture, the peat begins to decompose, and is an enormous source of carbon emissions. Based on visual interpretation of high-resolution (30 m) satellite images, a new study in the journal Global Change Biology: Bioenergy determined that industrial plantations covered over 3.1 Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 9, 2009

Including biofuels under a cap-and-trade scheme could create a more complete carbon management framework for the transportation fuels sector, according to a new peer-reviewed discussion paper by Dr. John DeCicco. In particular, it fails to cover many GHG emissions during the production of biofuels and their feedstocks.

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JUNE 8, 2015

In 2014, Volkswagen of America announced that starting with the launch of the zero-tailpipe emissions battery-electric 2015 e-Golf ( earlier post ), it would invest in projects to offset the carbon emissions created from the e-Golf on a full lifecycle basis: production, distribution and up to approximately 36,000 miles (57,936 km) of driving.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The EEA report ‘ Electric vehicles from life cycle and circular economy perspectives ’ reviews current evidence on electric cars’ impacts on climate change, air quality, noise and ecosystems, compared with conventional cars. —“Electric vehicles from life cycle and circular economy perspectives”.

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JULY 8, 2015

million in Carbon Recycling International (CRI). CRI, founded in 2006 in Reykjavik, Iceland, is developing technology to produce renewable methanol from clean energy and recycled CO 2 emissions. Zhejiang Geely Holding Group (Geely Group) will invest a total of US$45.5 —Li Shufu, Chairman of Geely Group. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 19, 2012

The report is not a comprehensive scientific assessment, the authors note; one such is slated to be forthcoming from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2013–14 in its Fifth Assessment Report. Indeed, present emission trends put the world plausibly on a path toward 4°C warming within the century.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

In particular, the study led by Drew Shindell found that methane emissions have a larger warming impact due to those interactions than accounted for in current carbon-trading schemes or in the Kyoto Protocol. Methane’s GWP may also change with time as air quality regulations alter the background state of tropospheric chemistry.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Comparison of surface temperature projections from the high-end emissions scenario, without carbon cycle feedbacks. One of the UK’s leading climate scientists has presented new research findings on the increasing potential for a 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 °F) Source: Met Office. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 27, 2017

Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) have developed a new process that transforms CO 2 into a controlled selection of nanotubes (CNTs) via molten electrolysis; they call the process C2CNT (CO2 into carbon nanotubes). Molten carbonate electrosynthesized boron-doped CNTs exhibit high electrical conductivity. —Ren et al. Licht (2017).

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

Although viewed as a potential target in the global effort to reduce climate change, atmospheric black carbon particles absorb significantly less sunlight than scientists have predicted, according to a new study by an international team of researchers, published in the journal Science. Credit: Cappa et al. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

GHG emissions for ATP shale (low and high cases) and conventional gasoline in grams of CO 2 e per MJ of final fuel delivered. These emissions are 1.5 times larger than emissions from conventionally produced gasoline. The high temperatures can cause carbonate minerals within the shale to decompose. Credit: ACS. MJ/MJ fuel.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

These figures raise the pressing question of whether scarce government funds might be better allocated to move the United States towards a low-carbon economy. billion—are attributable to corn-based ethanol, the climate effects of which are disputed. Tags: Climate Change Fuels Policy. Adeyeye et al.

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JULY 3, 2015

An 80% reduction in US greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050 has been generally established as the de facto required domestic contribution to stabilizing global concentrations at low to medium levels, that is, 450 and 550 ppm carbon dioxide equivalent (CO 2 -equiv). —Meier et al.

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MAY 15, 2014

2050 well-to-wheels (WTW) transportation sector CO 2 emissions in 11 world regions for a number of vehicle types. The researchers used a four-step process in their study: Determining the relative change in global, all-sector CO 2 emissions required for CO 2 stabilization at 450 ppm. Because of the high LDV emissions in 2000?2010,

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JULY 28, 2014

Instead, DeCicco proposes “ setting the lifecycle paradigm aside ” and focusing on the problem of carbon dioxide removal. With biofuels, FCA assumes that biogenic CO 2 emissions, both from end-use combustion and during processing, are fully balanced by CO 2 uptake during feedstock growth.

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JUNE 2, 2010

Measured variations in CO 2 emissions for different drive cycles. The UK Department for Transport has published the findings from the Light Goods Vehicle (LGV or van) CO 2 emissions study completed earlier. The study provides an estimate of sales-weighted new van CO 2 emissions of 207.6 Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

However, as solutions for mitigating and remediating the effects of climate change are contemplated, they often run into conflict with society’s proposed solutions for ensuring its future energy and food requirements. As a comparison, annual anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions currently measure 40 gigatons globally.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

By including upstream emissions from fuels, GHG emissions from cities exceed those attributed to direct end-use by up to 24% (for Toronto). By including upstream emissions from fuels, the researchers found that GHG emissions attributable to cities exceed those from direct end use by up to 24%. Tonnes CO 2 e/capita.

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AUGUST 13, 2013

Cutting the amount of short-lived, climate-warming emissions such as soot and methane won’t limit global warming as much as previous studies have suggested, according to a new study from the Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park, Md., Carbon dioxide can remain for 1,000-plus years.

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AUGUST 19, 2014

Qiang Dai and Christian Lastoskie found that BEVs and FCVs in particular offer significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, especially if carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies are implemented at the fuel conversion facilities. Credit: ACS, Dai and Lastoskie. Click to enlarge. particulate matter formation (PMF).

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AUGUST 23, 2012

million) demonstration program to encourage road haulage operators in the UK to buy and use lower carbon commercial vehicles. More than 300 low-carbon commercial vehicles will be involved in the demonstration program. and the Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV). The UK government will provide more than £11 million (US$17.5

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MARCH 16, 2012

If greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from indirect land use (iLUC) changes are included in the analysis, the differences increase to between 16% and 118% (33% on average). Process flow diagrams for E85 and gasoline. Credit: ACS, Yang et al. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

KPMG developed 3 nexuses linked by climate change to represent the challenges of sustainable growth. The 10 global sustainability megaforces that may impact business over the next two decades are: Climate Change: This may be the one global megaforce that directly impacts all others. Source: KPMG. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 25, 2013

John DeCicco at the University of Michigan argues that to reduce transportation sector greenhouse gas emissions, the proper policy focus should be upstream in sectors that provide the fuel, rather than downstream on the choice of fuels in the automobile. —“Factor Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Automobiles”.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

If you’re working on increasing fuel efficiency or you already have an alternative fuel vehicle, you can lessen your carbon footprint by taking advantage of green car care, repair and insurance. We’ll show you how to minimize your carbon footprint from the vehicle you drive in its care, repairs and maintenance. Hybrid Cars.

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