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California ARB soliciting research suggestions for FY 2012-2013 plan; sustainable communities, behavior, pollutant exposure, air pollution science, GHG targets

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The California Air Resources Board (ARB) is soliciting research suggestions for the Fiscal Year 2012-2013 Annual Research Plan in the form of brief conceptual descriptions that address specified research gaps and support the Board’s ongoing regulatory and policy priorities. The deadline to submit research concepts is 31 January 2012.

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U.K. Startup’s Digital Dyeing Printers Save Energy, Water

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He had created Xennia Technology as well, whose inkjet technologies revolutionized other highly polluting processes, such as the surface treatment for ceramic tiles. The fashion industry is responsible for 10 percent of carbon emissions, textile dyeing alone for 3 percent. gigatons of carbon dioxide by 2050.

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Hansen paper emphasizes importance of retention and expansion of nuclear power for health and climate reasons

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million air pollution-related deaths and 64 gigatonnes of CO 2 -equivalent (GtCO 2 -eq) greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that would have resulted from fossil fuel burning. While this could reduce the very high pollution-related deaths from coal power, the GHG emissions factor for syngas is substantially higher (between ?5%

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