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Greenhouse gas emissions in the US economy, 2008. Total US greenhouse gas emissions in 2008 were 2.2% below the 2007 total, according to the just-released report by the US Energy Information Administration, Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 2008. MMTCO 2 e in 2008—was largely the result of a 177.8-MMTCO

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FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Globally, commercial ships emit almost half as much particulate matter pollutants into the air as the total amount released by the world’s cars, according to a new study led by NOAA and the University of Colorado at Boulder. A 2008 study by Lack’s team focused exclusively on soot. Earlier post.). But particulate.

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MAY 13, 2010

Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the details of their long-anticipated energy and climate change legislation on Wednesday, 12 May. According to the recently finalized Inventory of US Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2008 , net US GHG emissions in 2008 were down 2.7%

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James Parish for the new facility because of the state’s strong business climate and the high inventories and inexpensive price of natural gas in Louisiana, as well as the area’s strategic shipping location at the Port of South Louisiana—the largest port in the Western Hemisphere by capacity.

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MAY 6, 2010

between 2008 and 2009. from 2008 to 2009 while the comparable price of natural gas fell 48% on a per Btu basis. The average decline in energy intensity from 2000 to 2008 was 2.0%. Emissions by end-use sector, 2008 and 2009. Residential and commercial each saw a 4.9% lower than 2008. lower than 2008.

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JUNE 29, 2012

Another $2 million of funding will be used for advanced-technology demonstration projects supporting the commercialization of new vehicle and equipment technologies. There will also be an additional $10 million in incentives for hybrid and zero-emission trucks and buses.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

This project also supports the design and development of a future commercial-scale biorefinery center in Mendota, a town of less than 12,000 in western Fresno County. Sugar beets have been grown in the area for more than 100 years, and were processed at a local Spreckels Sugar plant until it closed in 2008.

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In parallel, Alstom and EasyMile have signed a commercial partnership agreement aiming at joining their forces to provide integrated solutions for urban transportation. We are confident in the success of the EZ10, already tested in different climates and conditions. Ligier has marketed electric vehicles since 2008.

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

overall from 2008 to 2035. CO 2 emissions from the transportation sector are projected to remain at 33% of the total in 2035, but increase from 1,925 million metric tons in 2008 to 2,115 in 2035. trillion cubic feet in 2008 to 23.3 per year, or 8.7% Biofuels meet most of the growth in the liquid fuel supply. Source: EIA.

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JANUARY 18, 2012

Three UK Government Departments are working with 13 industrial partners from the utility, gas, infrastructure and global car manufacturing sectors on a project to ensure the UK is well-positioned for the commercial roll-out of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles.

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APRIL 13, 2014

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a policymaker’s summary of Working Group III’s (WG III) latest report showing that despite a growing number of climate change mitigation policies, annual anthropogenic GHG emissions grew on average by 1.0 WG III Summary for Policymakers. Click to enlarge.

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When Ifeanyi Orajaka was an undergraduate engineering student in 2008, he had his career all mapped out. In 2008 only about half of Nigeria’s 152 million citizens had electricity, according to a Macrotrends report. Having these [stations] in place will help fight climate change.”

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DECEMBER 24, 2015

These research and development efforts have helped reduce automotive fuel cell costs by more than 50% since 2006 and by more than 30% since 2008. Pathways To Commercial Success. At the same time, fuel cell durability has quadrupled and the amount of expensive platinum needed in fuel cells has decreased by 80 percent in the last decade.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Regarding the establishment of public charging piles, Shell said that the UK government’s Office of Zero Emission Vehicles currently bears 75% of the cost of installing roadside charging piles, while Shell is prepared to bear the remaining costs under commercial terms. Carbon reduction acceleration.

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The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has posted a revised draft of California’s proposed Short-Lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP) Strategy. SLCPs may account for an estimated 40% of global warming, increasing the impacts of climate change. —“Revised Proposed Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy”.

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APRIL 16, 2012

The largest sources of transportation greenhouse gases in 2010 were passenger cars (43%), light duty trucks (19%), freight trucks (22%) and commercial aircraft (6%). EPA prepares the annual report in collaboration with experts from multiple federal agencies and after gathering comments from stakeholders across the country.

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Additionally, relatively cool winter conditions led to an increase in fuels for the residential and commercial sectors for heating. Commercial aircraft emissions increased slightly between 2012 and 2013, but have decreased 18% since 2007. Climate Change Emissions' Domestic transportation CO 2 emissions increased by 15% (225.6

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NOVEMBER 26, 2009

ARB Staff’s analysis shows ZEVs will need to reach 100% of new vehicle sales between 2040 and 2050, with commercial markets for ZEVs launching in the 2015 to 2020 timeframe, to meet the 80% GHG reduction target set by the Governor. Source: ARB. Click to enlarge. Return to the Board by the end of 2009.

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Among domestic transportation sources, light duty vehicles (including passenger cars and light-duty trucks) represented 64% of CO 2 emissions, medium- and heavy-duty trucks 20%, commercial aircraft 6%, and other sources 9%. CO 2 from the domestic operation of commercial aircraft decreased by 18% (24.0 Tg) from 1990 to 2009.

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MAY 10, 2011

Up to 77% of the world’s energy supply could be met by six key renewables by mid-century under the most optimistic scenario if backed by the right enabling public policies, according to a new report by more than 120 researchers working with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Source: SRREN. Click to enlarge.

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The sales slowdown is widespread throughout China, according to the IHS analysis of its proprietary province- and city-level forecast, along with the current economic climate. This has happened just once in the past 15 years—in 2008, at the height of the global recession. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 11, 2014

For a full-scale market launch in 2015, the cost of the fuel cell system will be 95% lower than that of the 2008 Toyota FCHV-adv, Tanaka said. (A The Concept exterior design does take a commercial launch into consideration, although there are design elements that are show model-specific only.

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JANUARY 13, 2012

The standards will reduce the wasted electricity from powering our day-to-day appliances by 40 percent and help California meet its strategic climate policy goals. The Energy Commission began working on these energy efficiency standards in April 2008. Industrial charger compliance (e.g. forklifts) is required by 1 January 2014.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2009

The recently concluded Alberta Renewable Diesel Demonstration (ARDD), Canada’s largest cold-weather study of bio-derived diesel fuels, demonstrated the successful on-road use of low-level blends of biodiesel (fatty acid methyl ester, FAME) and hydrogenated-derived renewable diesel (HDRD) in a range of Canadian climatic conditions.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Much of the momentum for the shift originally came from the EU’s directive on mobile air-conditioning systems (MACs), which aims to reduce emissions of specific fluorinated greenhouse gases in the air-conditioning systems fitted to passenger cars (vehicles of category M1) and light commercial vehicles (category N1, class 1).

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APRIL 12, 2012

The vehicles are manufactured by Anaheim-based Isuzu Commercial Truck of America Inc. The newly approved incentive go to the following companies: Tom’s Truck Center is awarded $400,000 for the buy-down of 20 natural gas-powered vehicles in the 14,001-to-26,000 pounds gross vehicle weight range. Nations Bus Corp.

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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. However, when CO 2 dissolves in seawater, it forms carbonic acid. 2007; Tyrrell et al.,

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MAY 25, 2010

The study examined the fuel-cycle CO 2 , SO 2 , and NO x emissions of EVs in China in both current (2008) and future (2030) periods and compared them with those of conventional gasoline vehicles and gasoline hybrids. Generation mix of the six interprovincial power grids in 2008. and NO x emissions. Credit: ACS, Huo et al.

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The study also found that shows that water use for algae cultivation is much less if algae are grown in the US regions that have the sunniest and most humid climates: the Gulf Coast, the Southeastern Seaboard and the Great Lakes. imported in 2008 for transportation fuels, and it could be grown on land roughly the size of South Carolina.

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MAY 30, 2012

This can be partially explained by the fact that there was a sharp 7.3% (or -365 million tonnes) decrease of emissions between 2008 and 2009. Among the greenhouse gases reported to the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC), carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) accounted for the largest increase in emissions in 2010.

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MAY 8, 2009

The two companies had agreed in 2008 to co-operate on an exclusive basis to develop and market plants for the production of second-generation biofuels. Earlier post.). The plant, located at Süd-Chemie’s research center in Munich-Obersendling, will manufacture up to two tons of bioethanol fuel annually.

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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) called for the aviation industry and governments to bring an aligned global approach on aviation carbon emissions to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) conference to be held this December in Copenhagen. Of this, 6.0%

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152,945 autos, 25,748 light commercial. UNICA sees that situation as ironic: while fossil fuels move freely around the world, renewables, capable of positively impacting climate change, are blocked, at a time when the world repeatedly declares it is concerned about climate change. —Marcos Jank, president of UNICA.

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The proposal also includes the already established EU fleet wide targets for 2020/2021 of 95 g CO 2 /km for passenger cars and 147 g CO 2 /km for light commercial vehicles, both of which are based on the NEDC (New European Driving Cycle) test procedure.

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But with so many Americans now working at least partially from home, offices and other commercial spaces remain closed across the country. To help ease the transition as employees slowly return to the workplace, property owners are adding more tenant perks to commercial real estate business plans.

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MARCH 12, 2009

As fuel demand and concern over climate change continue to rise, biofuels production must be profitable and sustainable, with a reduced energy footprint to make a true impact. The permeation of water across the membrane occurs by adsorption of water onto the interior surface of the membrane.

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in the past few years important factors have emerged that are re-accelerating the commercialization of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. —“The Hydrogen Transition”. Driving factors. Global public support now totals about $1 billion per year, leveraging many times that amount in private funds.

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