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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved a $95-million plan for critical clean transportation investments to expedite the adoption of zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) and help the state reach its climate, air quality and other goals. The program funds air quality improvement projects relating to fuel and vehicle technologies.

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MARCH 13, 2009

Researchers at the University of Maryland and the University of Texas, Austin, have created a database that includes visibility measurements taken from 1973 - 2007 at 3,250 meteorological stations all over the world and released by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). NASA technique.

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DECEMBER 15, 2022

The funds will support the deployment of thousands of zero-emission trucks, school buses and transit buses to deliver clean air benefits to communities hit hardest by the impacts of pollution from medium- and heavy-duty vehicles.

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APRIL 2, 2009

The on-road transportation (ORT) and power generation (PG) sectors are major contributors to CO 2 emissions and a host of short-lived radiatively-active air pollutants, including tropospheric ozone and fine aerosol particles, that exert complex influences on global climate. Unger et al. Click to enlarge. Unger et al.

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

Health and other non-climate damages by life-cycle component for different combinations of fuels and light-duty automobiles in 2005 (top) and 2030 (bottom). Damages are expressed in cents per VMT (2007 USD). Source: “Hidden Costs of Energy”. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Promoting the use of zero-emission vehicles will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution at the nation?s Assembly Bill (AB) 118 (Nùñez, Chapter 750, Statutes of 2007), created the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program (ARFVTP). s second-busiest container port.

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APRIL 1, 2009

Markey of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee on Tuesday released a draft of far-reaching energy and climate legislation that targets job creation, promotes renewables and energy efficiency, and places limits on emissions of greenhouse gases. Title III, Reducing Global Warming Pollution , (the cap-and-trade title), has eight subsections.

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MARCH 19, 2009

Business leaders from some of the world’s biggest companies called for water, energy and climate change issues to be linked in global negotiations, such as the international climate talks due to culminate in Copenhagen in December. Climate change will affect the use and availability of both. Data: WBCSD (2009). Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 21, 2011

emissions (kg CO 2 person -1 yr -1 ) for a global sample of countries (2007) with a wide range of per capita incomes. suggest that meeting the 2050 climate targets will be feasible only with global implementation of robust policies to slow the growth rate of LDV VKT in low-income countries, and to reduce VKT in high-income countries.

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APRIL 28, 2010

The report’s findings for the period 1997–2007 present a mixed picture, with some improvements in air pollutants and serious concerns regarding persistent growth in transport’s greenhouse gas emissions. Air travel within the EU remained the fastest growth area, increasing 48% between 1997 and 2007.

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JUNE 17, 2009

Widespread climate-related impacts are occurring now in the US and are expected to increase. A product of the interagency US Global Change Research Program, the 190-page report was commissioned in 2007 and completed this spring. It is clear that climate change is happening now. Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States.

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

EPA’s final findings respond to the 2007 US Supreme Court decision that GHGs fit within the Clean Air Act definition of air pollutants. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Policy. EPA also finds that GHG emissions from on-road vehicles contribute to that threat. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

criteria pollutants—is not affected by the action. The California waiver authority exists because California has uniquely difficult problems with ozone-forming pollutants. The California waiver authority does not exist to allow California to address national and global issues such as climate change.

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JULY 10, 2011

During the flexible price period, an overall cap will be placed on Australia’s annual greenhouse gas emissions from all sources of pollution covered by the carbon price. We have had a long debate about climate change in this country. Economists and experts agree that the best way is to make polluters pay by putting a price on carbon.

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

The RV1 route passes through some of London’s most polluted areas, so its conversion to hydrogen power will help to improve London’s air quality. This is set to expand to 300 and, from 2012, will be joined by the Mayor’s New Bus for London, which will be 40% less polluting than a traditional diesel bus.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

EPA in 2007, the Supreme Court determined that greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, are air pollutants under the Clean Air Act and EPA must determine if they threaten public health and welfare. Climate Change Coal Emissions Natural Gas Policy Power Generation' Background. In the decision in Massachusetts v. Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

The fraction of total CO 2 emissions remaining in the atmosphere has likely increased from 40 to 45% since 1959; models suggests this is due to the response of the natural CO 2 sinks to climate change and variability. Tags: Climate Change Emissions. over the previous seven years. over the previous seven years. —Dr Canadell.

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JANUARY 29, 2010

It found that 65% of respondents spontaneously selected emissions from road transport as a cause of climate change. Most respondents said they think cars or aeroplanes are the transport modes mainly responsible for climate changing emissions. In 2008, 64% agreed with that; in 2007, 63%; and in 2006, 62% agreed. Source: DfT.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Members of REVI will include San Diego County; the Cities of Carlsbad, Chula Vista, Coronado, Del Mar, Escondido, San Diego, and Solana Beach; and three regional public agencies including the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority, the San Diego Air Pollution Control District, and the San Diego Unified Port District.

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MARCH 22, 2010

Verification of the emission reduction or carbon sequestration is critical in efforts to mitigate climate change. Harnessing Farms and Forests in the Low-Carbon Economy: How to Create, Measure, and Verify Greenhouse Gas Offsets, by Zack Willey and Bill Chameides, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, 2007. CONCLUSION.

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

About a third of the airborne lead particles collected at two sites in the San Francisco Bay Area came from Asia, a finding that underscores the far-flung impacts of air pollution and heralds a new way to learn more about its journey across vast distances. One site was on Mt. Tamalpais, in Marin County. Samples were taken to beamline 10.3.1

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AUGUST 22, 2012

Since 2007, roughly 80% of spending on consumption subsidies occurred in countries that are net exporters of fossil fuels. The US National Academy of Sciences estimates that fossil fuel subsidies cost the United States $120 billion in pollution and related health care costs every year.

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MARCH 1, 2012

The 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) set a goal of increasing US biofuel production more than three-fold from 40 to 136 billion liters of ethanol per year by 2022. They also noted that research shows that increased farming could lead to more polluted freshwater and accelerate global climate change.

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

has been expanding investments in green businesses and technologies to achieve its goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in response to global climate change. Fulcrum’s business model could help address various social issues associated with conventional waste disposal, such as a shortage of landfill space and environmental pollution.

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AUGUST 14, 2009

But in a year that has seen both a worsening recession and state budget crisis, residents’ support for urgent action on climate change has slipped and a partisan divide on the issue has widened. Support has declined 7 points from July 2008 (73%) and 12 points from 2007 (78%). Mark Baldassare, president and CEO of PPIC.

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MARCH 27, 2012

The proposed standard provides flexibilities for new power plants to phase in technology to reduce carbon pollution: New power plants that use CCS would have the option to use a 30?year On 2 April 2007, in the Massachusetts v. Currently, there is no uniform national limit on the amount of greenhouse gases new power plants can emit.

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APRIL 17, 2009

After a thorough scientific review ordered in 2007 by the US Supreme Court, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a proposal with two distinct findings regarding greenhouse gases. In both magnitude and probability, climate change is an enormous problem. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Policy.

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JULY 1, 2015

Overall trends in the inventory also demonstrate that the carbon intensity of California’s economy, the amount of carbon pollution per million dollars of GDP, is declining. Emissions from the transportation sector rose by a single percentage point compared to 2012, but are still down 11% from the peak year of 2007.

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APRIL 23, 2009

The Alternative and Renewable Fuels and Vehicle Technology Program’s Investment Plan allocates $176 million over the next two years to stimulate green transportation projects and encourage innovation to help meet the state’s aggressive climate change policies. Vehicles are the major contributor to global warming pollution.

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APRIL 7, 2009

In most Central and Eastern European countries, the main concern of policy makers remains to reduce the level of old vehicles on the streets with pollutant emission standards of below Euro 3. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Europe Fuel Efficiency Policy. ACEA provides an overview of the CO 2 -based vehicle taxes here.

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DECEMBER 9, 2009

This would represent an approximate 20% reduction compared to the new vehicle fleet that was sold in Canada in 2007. Bob Oliver, Executive Director of Canadian environmental NGO Pollution Probe. This is an important step in the fight against climate change. Tags: Canada Climate Change Emissions Fuel Efficiency Policy.

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JANUARY 30, 2009

The ocean absorbs CO 2 from the atmosphere at a rate of more than 20 million tons per day, thus removing one-fourth of the anthropogenic CO 2 emitted to the atmosphere each year and reducing the climate-change impacts of this greenhouse gas. pH units by 2100 relative to preindustrial conditions (Meehl et al, 2007). 2007; Tyrrell et al.,

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AUGUST 31, 2009

I contributed the following to the World Wildlife Climate Witness site last week and it was published this morning. So not only is climate change-driven drought cutting our fresh water supply, but the way we use water here also adds to our greenhouse gas emissions. That’s about a 25% reduction.

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MAY 22, 2009

As part of ARB’s 2006-2007 budget, the California legislature allotted $25 million for the purposes of encouraging the use of biofuels and high efficiency, low-emitting vehicle technologies. These funds were used to support projects that reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions by using alternative fuels.

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DECEMBER 22, 2014

The orthodox view of unlimited oil demand growth simply does not hold in a world of super-efficient engines, electric vehicles, desperate air pollution problems, and action on climate. since 2007, while demand for finished petroleum products has dropped by 10.5%. The US economy has grown by 8.9%

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Assembly Bill 118 (Núñez, Chapter 750, Statutes of 2007) created the California Energy Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program. In 2007 the company developed Mission One, a high performance electric motorcycle. The eight projects are: Electric Vehicle manufacturing. $1 Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

The design of the California cap-and-trade program allows linkage with programs established by partner jurisdictions in the Western Climate Initiative (WCI) to create a regional market system. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Fuels Policy. The program is expected to reduce GHG emissions between 18 and 27 MMTCO 2 e in 2020.

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