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Dominion Energy & Duke Energy cancel $8B Atlantic Coast Pipeline due to delays and cost uncertainty

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A series of legal challenges to the project’s federal and state permits has caused significant project cost increases and timing delays. The Atlantic Coast Pipeline was initially announced in 2014 in response to a lack of energy supply and delivery diversification across North Carolina and Virginia.

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Tesla loses top attorney Lynn Miller to autonomous trucking startup

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In March 2014, she joined as an Associate General Counsel for Litigation, Regulatory, and Privacy matters. ” During her time at Tesla, Miller was a key part of Tesla’s legal team. Still, the company has been beefing up its legal team and has recruited an attorney with plenty of experience in the sector of vehicle autonomy.

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Alcoa splitting into two companies; expecting 2.4x increase in automotive revenues to $1.8B in 2018

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The Upstream Company’s asset base will include the world’s largest bauxite mining portfolio, with 46 million bone dry metric tons of production in 2014. It has a low 19 th percentile position on the global bauxite cost curve. billion between 2009 and 2014. times from 2014 to $1.8 The Value-Add Company.

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IEEE Discusses 6 Simple Solutions to Climate Change at COP27

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At COP27, he said that even though the first legally binding international treaty on climate change, known as the Paris Agreement , was adopted nearly a decade ago, countries have yet to come to a consensus on how to stop burning fossil fuels, among other issues. It results in higher efficiencies: about 46 percent.

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House Chairmen Waxman, Markey Release Draft of Energy and Climate Legislation; Among the Many Provisions Are Cap-and-Trade, Harmonization of CAFE and California Vehicle Regulations, and Low Carbon Fuel Standard

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For each year from 2014 through 2022, the annual average lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions, per unit of energy as determined by the Administrator of the EPA, of transportation fuel, excluding renewable fuel must not exceed the baseline. light duty vehicles—e.g.,

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

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The program limits, or “caps,” carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions from large fossil-fuel-fired electric generating units, with the goal of stabilizing emissions from 2009 through 2014 to a level roughly equivalent to recent historical emissions. The total amount of pollution allowances sold may not exceed 188 million tons per year through 2014.

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