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Origin Materials launches Net Zero Automotive Program with Ford; carbon-negative PET

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Origin Materials has developed technology which turns sustainable wood residues into cost-advantaged, carbon-negative materials that reduce the need for fossil resources. The assessment studies Origin products across four environmental criteria: climate change; ecosystem quality, resource consumption; and human health.

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California ARB releases final version of proposed update to Climate Change Scoping Plan; LEV IV

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The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has released. the final version of the proposed First Update to the Climate Change Scoping Plan (First Update). The Air Resources Board is required to update the Scoping Plan every five years. The draft version was released in February. Earlier post.).

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CARB approves $2.6B investment for clean cars, trucks, mobility options

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The California Air Resources Board approved a $2.6-billion The investments are part of California’s comprehensive strategy for improving air quality and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector, the state’s largest source of air pollution and climate-changing gases.

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Georgia Tech study projects potential mixed impacts of climate change policies on air quality

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They used the EPA US 9-region national database (EPAUS9r) with the MARKet Allocation (MARKAL) energy system model to develop emissions scenarios and spectral nudging to downscale global climate to the regional scale over the US. Climate Change Emissions Health Policy' —Trail et al. Trail, Alexandra P. Rudokas, Paul J.

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CA lawmakers pass AB 1322; 20% usage of sustainable fuels in the aviation sector by 2030

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Rivas); the bill requires the California Air Resources Board to develop an incentives-based plan to promote the use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and other alternatives to jet fuel to reduce the impact of commercial aviation on climate change.

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Adaptation of rice shows use of symbiogenics as a new strategy for reducing impacts of climate change and catastrophes on plants

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Rice—which provides nearly half the daily calories for the world’s population—could become better adapted to stresses resulting from climate change and some catastrophic events through what researchers are calling “symbiogenics”—symbiosis-altered gene expression. These findings, Redman et al. 0014823.

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Canada investing $20M in Terrestrial Energy to support development of Integral Molten Salt SMR

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SMRs are a game-changing technology with the potential to play a critical role in fighting climate change, and rebuilding our post COVID-19 economy. Seamus O’Regan, Minister of Natural Resources. The key challenge to MSR commercialization has been graphite’s limited lifetime in a reactor core. —Hon.