Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2023

These results indicate that coal and oil are the energy sources leading to most emissions, and that hydro, wind, and nuclear are the energy sources leading to least emissions. On the two extremes, coal and oil result in about 176 times the emissions from hydro. Energy source Proportional amount of emissions relative to hydro Coal 175.9

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West Virginia Emissions Carbon Vermont 345

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Selin and Friedman use the global 3-D chemical transport model GEOS-Chem to track the day-to-day transport of PAHs—toxic byproducts of burning wood, coal, oil and other forms of energy that remain in the atmosphere for less time than other persistent organic pollutants regulated by global standards.

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MIT Transportation Rhode Island Building 218

Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2010

The projects are located in North Carolina, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Georgia, and Quebec, Canada (through collaboration with a company based in Lexington, Ky.). Brown University (Providence, R.I.). McGill University (Quebec, Canada). million over two to three years.

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Conversion Carbon Rhode Island Massachusetts 210

Baua Electric

APRIL 15, 2024

Over the centuries, New Haven has had chapters devoted to maritime trade, railroads, industrial manufacturing and — as home to Yale University and other institutions of higher learning — education and health care. The concept of change that threads through the Peabody’s 19 galleries is symbolic of what’s happening elsewhere in the city.

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Neighborhood Rhode Island New York Building 52

Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2011

Shutting down nuclear power plants in the US would have significant economic and environmental consequences, according to a new study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and DAI Management Consultants, Inc. The calculated cost of generation with the new mix of plants was a lower bound.

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Coal Rhode Island Switzerland Gas-Electric 199

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. After 2014, the amount of allowances shrinks gradually by 2.5 Reduced Output.

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Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate 244