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Nine states and DC to design regional approach to cap greenhouse gas emissions from transportation

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The work of TCI is facilitated by the Georgetown Climate Center. This proposed program, when combined with existing programs and complementary policies, will be designed to achieve substantial reductions in transportation sector emissions and provide net economic and social benefits for participating states.

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3 East Coast states and DC first to participate in TCI-P cap-and-invest program for transportation

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The governors of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, and the mayor of the District of Columbia announced that theirs will be the first jurisdictions to launch a new multi-state program that the principals expect will invest some $300 million per year in cleaner transportation choices.

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Canada and California to work together on cleaner transportation

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Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, and the Chair of the California Air Resources Board, Mary Nichols, today signed a new cooperation agreement to advance cleaner vehicles and fuels. Canada is developing a Clean Fuel Standard that will cut emissions by 30 million tonnes in 2030.

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Lung Association report highlights health and climate costs of petroleum-based transportation and the benefits of shifting to ZEVs

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Under this scenario, the estimated total health and climate change costs associated with passenger vehicle fleet pollution drops from to $37 billion annually to $15.7 —Bonnie Holmes-Gen, senior director of Air Quality and Climate Change with the American Lung Association in California. Rhode Island: $407 million.

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Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Gains Steam

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Many still-speculative small modular reactor designs might deliver just a few hundred megawatts. (In Depending on the design, these could be cooled with less water or even air, making them far more feasible fits for coal sites. But in the future, not all reactors might be so large.

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Governors of 11 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States Agree to Work Together Toward Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Fuels; Timeline for Developing a Potential Low Carbon Fuel Standard for Region

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Based on Letters of Intent signed in December 2008 by state environmental commissioners, the participating states—the 10 RGGI states plus Pennsylvania—have been doing preliminary work toward designing a regional LCFS program. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Fuels Policy.

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How NIST Learns from Horrific Disaster

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The maps need to be refreshed regularly as science, technology, and the climate change. Nine months in to Lombardo's job, however, everything changed. It had only carried out one such investigation since then, into the 2003 Station nightclub fire in Rhode Island that killed 100 people.

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