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Planet-Warming Texas Oil Refineries Embrace Communist Chinese Stance on Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions. CO2-Belching Texas Polluters Pony Up Millions To Overturn California’s AB 32

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China “could not and should not&# set an upper limit on greenhouse gas emissions at the current phase, said Su Wei, the chief negotiator of China for climate change talks in Copenhagen, at a meeting in Beijing on China’s climate change policies in the post-Copenhagen era. They want to take the money and run.

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Honda secures auto industry’s largest renewable energy purchase; 60% reduction in CO2 from N.A. manufacturing operations

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In fall of 2021, Honda will secure an additional 482,000 MWh/year from 200 MW of solar power generated from a Texas solar facility. Additional details of the Texas solar facility will be disclosed in 2020 when it is nearer to completion. will deliver to the grid by the end of 2020.

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Tesla’s Move To Texas & Its ESG Status

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Tesla is a disruptive force that is changing the way the entire world engages in energy consumption. That's why Tesla's move to Texas seems so contradictory and is worrying environmental, social, and governance-focused investors.

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Study: expanding Brazilian sugarcane for ethanol could reduce global CO2 emissions by up to 5.6%

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This would be a massive undertaking, involving the conversion of hundreds of thousands of square miles—at its most ambitious, more than the combined land area of Texas and California—to sugarcane fields. The carbon-related costs of converting the land to sugarcane fields were included in the analysis. Gigatons yr −1.

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Exxon/Mobil Guilty of Climate Change Coverup. Now Ordered Out of Torrance 3 Years Sooner.

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But now that I’ve found out they’re still lying and covering up their role in climate change and the size of their own carbon footprint, I’m going to have to get tougher with them. I initially gave Exxon/Mobil till 2020 to get out of Torrance and clean up their toxic mess here in my town.

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DOE-supported carbon and capture storage projects hit 10M tonnes of CO2 milestone

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in Port Arthur, Texas, is demonstrating a system to capture carbon emissions from two steam methane reformers used to produce hydrogen. The CO 2 , in compressed form, is then delivered by pipeline to enhanced oil recovery projects in eastern Texas. One DOE supported project alone has now captured nearly 2 million metric tons of CO 2.

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EIA releases report on CO2 emissions by state; California led in 2010 with transportation-sector emissions

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Factors such as size, population density, available fuels, types of businesses, climate, all play a role in both total and per capita emissions, the EIA noted. Topping the list for absolute emissions in 2010 was Texas (652.6 million tonnes CO 2 ), followed by Texas (194.9 million tonnes in Texas (8.3%). tonnes/person).

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