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California Regulation for Lower-Sulfur Marine Fuel Now in Effect

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All ocean-going vessels within 24 nautical miles of California’s coastline must now use cleaner burning diesel fuel in order to comply with a new state regulation aimed at reducing the emissions of oxides of sulfur and nitrogen and diesel particulate matter, starting 1 July. Earlier post.).

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Massachusetts sets state GHG emissions limit for 2020 at 25% below 1990 levels, releases plan with additional measures, including Pay As You Drive auto insurance

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Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Ian Bowles has set the statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limit for 2020 required by the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2008 at 25% below 1990 levels, the maximum authorized by the Act, saying that measures already in place will get Massachusetts much of the way toward that goal.

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Group of 285 global investors with more than $20T in assets under management calls for urgent action on investment-grade climate change and energy policies; guidelines for governments

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Investor support for climate action as expressed in such a statement has more than doubled since November 2008, when 150 investors with $9 trillion in assets under management first came together to urge government leaders to act on climate change.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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The other goal, of course, is the system’s ultimate purpose: to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by channeling funds into cleaner technologies. Offset Quality Initiative, Ensuring Offset Quality (July 2008), available at: [link]. Is the CDM Fulfilling its Environmental and Sustainable Development Objectives?

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EPA Administrator broadly outlines Trump Administration thinking on fuel economy standards and California

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Wheeler adduced four reasons to support that argument: price, safety, environmental impact and incentivizing the purchase of new, cleaner, safer cars. Bush administration denied California’s waiver in 2008 and California challenged that decision, but the case was never decided. —Andrew Wheeler. —Andrew Wheeler.

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

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The first auction for allowances was held on September 25, 2008. Since September 2008, RGGI has raised $583 million for the states in these quarterly auctions of permits with between 65 and 70 percent of cap-and-trade proceeds going back into the clean energy economy. nationals and legal residents. Another six U.S.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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Other transaction costs include the search of partners, the drafting of contracts, legal assistance, etc. A joint venture is a legal organization that takes the form of a short term partnership in which the persons jointly undertake a transaction for mutual profit. The SABMF(s) could be manufactured in Lafayette, Louisiana for export.