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Latest GHG Inventory shows California remains below 2020 emissions target; much steeper rate of GHG reductions required

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The data shows a slight increase in overall emissions from the previous year, and a slight decline in emissions from transportation, which is the state’s main source of both GHGs and air pollutants. Per capita GHG emissions in California have dropped from a 2001 peak of 14.0 Source: California Air Resources Board (ARB).

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Study shows bamboo ethanol in China technically and economically feasible, cost-competitive with gasoline

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In 2011, China contributed 29% of world carbon dioxide emissions and therefore the country has a significant potential to influence the present and future global energy situation. In its development of biofuel policy, China’s 10 th five-year plan (2001–2005) proposed a biofuel industry to utilize surplus grain stocks.

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High Performance Computing key enabler for accelerating development of high efficiency engines

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Wagner, Director of the Fuels Engines and Emissions Research Center, and Dr. Sreekanth Pannala, Senior Research Staff Member in the Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in a keynote talk at the recent Global Powertrain Conference. Keynote at Global Powertrain Congress 2012.

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The View From Here Today

Creative Greenius

In 2001 she terminated our grass lawns and replaced them with drought tolerant plants because of her concerns for water use. We Californians are very proud of our state’s Global Warming Solutions law, AB 32, that mandates greenhouse gas emissions to be reduced to 1990 levels by the year 2020. That’s about a 25% reduction.

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California greenhouse gas inventory shows state is tracking to achieve 2020 AB 32 target

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California’s annual statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emission inventory is an important tool for establishing historical emission trends and tracking the state’s progress toward the goal set by the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32). Carbon intensity has dropped 23% from the peak in 2001, and declined an average of 1.9%

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The Greenius Goes Into Overdrive

Creative Greenius

The EPN has been around since 2001 and to be honest, I should have gotten involved with them a long time ago. So p ony up your $12 and help us beat the carbon collaborators and global warming deniers like a rented mule. Free, Clean, Renewable Electricity From The Wind: Visiting PacWind with Dency & J.R.

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Driving on sunshine

Plug in America

No pollution, well-to-wheels. I charge at night, when rates are lowest, so there’s a speck of non-renewable energy in my battery. “I haven’t paid for electricity for my house or my EV since 2001,” he says. The World Health Organization estimates that some seven million people die every year from polluted air.

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