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California Regulation for Lower-Sulfur Marine Fuel Now in Effect

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A legal challenge to the enforcement of the regulation, filed by the Pacific Merchant Shipping Association (PMSA), was denied on 30 June by the Eastern District of California. In 2009, MGO (marine gasoil) must have a sulfur limit of 1.5% (15,000 ppm), while MDO (marine diesel oil) would have a limit of 0.5% (5,000 ppm).

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The Case for Nuclear Cargo Ships

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The IMO’s previous goal was a 50 percent reduction by 2050 in comparison with 2008 levels. Vard Group is part of NuProShip , a consortium of the Norwegian maritime authority, universities, shipbuilders, and shipping companies that aims to develop a Generation IV reactor for marine vessels.

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Perspective: The Role of Offsets in Climate Change Legislation

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reforestation); Limiting deforestation by purchasing forested property and preserving the forests with legal and enforcement mechanisms; Setting aside croplands from agricultural production to rebuild carbon in the soil and vegetation; and. A 2008 EPA study analyzed the economic impacts of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008 (S.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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Offset Quality Initiative, Ensuring Offset Quality (July 2008), available at: [link]. On 21 June 2008, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal signed into law the Advanced Biofuel Industry Development Initiative (“Act 382”). with honors, in Marine/Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering from the United States Merchant Marine Academy.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

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Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. The easiest conversions are for 2004-2008 Prius (not 2001-2003 Prius) and the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrid. They are early adopters, buying "Version 1.0" PHEVs with "Good Enough to Get Started" batteries.

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New Study Finds Flaw in Carbon Accounting for Bioenergy, Another Contends That Indirect Land Use Change Emissions for Biofuels Will Be Up To Twice Direct Land Use Change Emissions

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Thirteen scientists and land use experts conclude in a new paper that an important but fixable error in legal accounting rules used to measure compliance with carbon limits for bioenergy could undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging deforestation. Their paper is published in the 23 Oct. Earlier post.).

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

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Steven Cherry: There's a process in legal cases, especially lawsuits, that involves an incredibly tedious process of finding and extracting information from sometimes enormous masses of data that by law, the other side has to provide. So yes, these are very much real-world use cases. data tools and applications. Tell us a bit about Entagen.