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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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Refiners and Truckers Associations Challenge California LCFS in Federal Court

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The National Petrochemical & Refiners Association (NPRA) filed a legal challenge to California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) with the US District Court, Eastern District of California, Fresno Division. Earlier post.). In response to the lawsuit, Mary Nichols, CARB chairman, issued the following statement: Their actions are shameful.

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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. United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009. Donovan (20 December 2009). United Nations Clean Development Mechanism. About the Author.

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Obama Announces Steps to Boost Biofuels, Clean Coal; RFS2, BCAP, BIWG and Carbon Capture and Storage Task Force

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We’re also going to be talking about some developments we’re making on biofuels, so that more folks can start filling up their cars and trucks with cleaner, American-grown fuels. bg, (combining the 2009 and 2010 standards as proposed), or 1.10% of total fuel. For 2010, the cellulosic standard is being set at 6.5

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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. When Barack Obama became president, the litigation was put in abeyance and EPA in 2009 granted California’s waiver to set its own greenhouse gas emission standards for model years 2009 to 2016.

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Former EPA exec surveys the road ahead for US emissions standards

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Federal emissions and fuel economy regulations have been instrumental in encouraging (or coercing) automakers to produce EVs, and to make their legacy vehicles cleaner. So that was the basis for the EPA, under President Obama in 2009, setting the first federal greenhouse gas standard for cars. And yes, there could be legal actions.

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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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A key working group under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) released its first official draft for a climate deal on Friday, 11 Dec 2009. Other transaction costs include the search of partners, the drafting of contracts, legal assistance, etc. Reductions in Emissions. Scenario No. 2: Joint Venture (JV).