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Equity: More important than ever

Electric Auto Association

Endless studies on the impact of pollution and climate change on low-income families have all come up with the same general result: It is a very real and very serious problem. This is in addition to underserved population exposure to tailpipe pollution from high concentrations of car and truck traffic.

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Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Gains Steam

Cars That Think

A specific challenge would-be-conversions must face is that the NRC’s standards—both for atmospheric pollution and for the amount of radiological material a reactor can release—are much tighter than federal standards for coal plants. In West Virginia, once coal’s citadel, the state government eliminated its old ban on nuclear power plants.

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Researchers describe the “where” and “when” of life cycle emissions from gasoline and ethanol in the US

Green Car Congress

Researchers from the University of Minnesota have produced a spatially and temporally explicit life cycle inventory (LCI) of air pollutants from gasoline, ethanol derived from corn grain, and ethanol from corn stover for the contiguous US (the lower 48 states). The researchers included a sixth pollutant, ammonia (NH 3 ).

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Chilled Ammonia Pilot Project Captures 90% of CO2

Green Car Congress

The gas is first cooled to condense and remove moisture and residual pollutants before it enters the CO 2 absorber. As the next step in demonstrations of increasing size, the first of two product validation facilities recently began at the American Electric Power (AEP) Mountaineer Plant in New Haven, West Virginia.

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SCOPE Biofuels Project Releases Assessment on Environmental Effects of Biofuel Technologies

Green Car Congress

Low-input cultivation of perennial plants, e.g. from short-rotation forestry and grasslands, may be an effective source of cellulosic biomass and provide environmental benefits (reduced pollution and lower greenhouse gas emissions). Bringezu (eds) Biofuels: Environmental Consequences and Interactions with Changing Land Use.

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3 More Reasons I’m Happy I Dumped the Democrats

Creative Greenius

When I quit the Democratic party last summer the last straw for me was their total FAIL to take a stand and do anything about climate change. Politico reported yesterday morning th at two senior House Democrats are on board for the crazy ass introduction of legislation to stop the EPA’s climate change regulations.

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3 More Reasons I’m Happy I Dumped the Democrats

Creative Greenius

When I quit the Democratic party last summer the last straw for me was their total FAIL to take a stand and do anything about climate change. Politico reported yesterday morning th at two senior House Democrats are on board for the crazy ass introduction of legislation to stop the EPA’s climate change regulations.