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Six refineries in $425M settlement with EPA and DOJ over emissions violations

Green Car Congress

Implementation of a detailed plan for reducing waste gas to flares. combustion efficiency at all times when waste gases are vented. Strict internal leak definitions: 500 ppm for valves and 2000 ppm for pumps. Refineries also emit greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change, as well as fugitive VOCs.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

Just two people live in its 3000+ energy-wasting square feet. It’s just this mind-blowing waste of time. When I got back from Japan in 2000 I didn’t want to start a computer business. In 2000 there couldn’t have been too many old timers in the solar industry. Oh how it dwarfs the normal sized other homes all around it.

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Gallium Nitride and Silicon Carbide Fight for Green Tech Domination

Cars That Think

Can advanced semiconductors cut emissions of greenhouse gases enough to make a difference in the struggle to halt climate change? Such a change is actually well underway. Virtually everywhere that alternating current must be transformed to direct current or vice versa, there will be fewer wasted watts.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

By about 2000, BYD had become one of the worlds largest manufacturers of cellphone batteries. By contrast, the last time BYD executives traveled to the Detroit auto show they rented a suburban house to save the cost of hotel rooms. " Even before visiting BYD, Sokol believed in electric cars. Electric cars will be one answer.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. As Senators Graham, Kerry and Lieberman try to resuscitate the climate change bill by introducing a revised bill in mid-to-late April, twenty-three U.S. Factors Determining Abatement Costs.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

It is simply the cost of doing business. "On some products, the costs, particularly in advanced technologies, are high," he said in a lengthy interview with Automotive News (free subscription required). We should have built more Nuclear power plants and created a nuclear waste recycling program.

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