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Ninth annual Green Innovation Index finds California light-duty vehicle emissions spike; major challenge to 2030 climate goals

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If current rates of decline continue through 2020, the state will need to reduce emissions at a rate of 4.97% each year in the decade between 2020 and 2030, and produce even steeper declines in the period from 2030 to 2050, if it is to meet current climate goals. As gasoline prices fell starting in late 2014, motorists logged an additional 2.7

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Fisker has reportedly hired bankruptcy consultants

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Fisker has been going through a rough time lately, with its stock possibly being delisted due to low share prices. Fisker did unveil a future pickup truck, called “Alaska,” last year , and that truck does happen to look a lot like a Nissan Frontier.

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Fisker has reportedly hired bankruptcy consultants [Updated, Fisker responds]

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Fisker has been going through a rough time lately, with its stock possibly being delisted due to low share prices. Fisker did unveil a future pickup truck, called “Alaska,” last year , and that truck does happen to look a lot like a Nissan Frontier. Update: Fisker responded with a statement, included below.

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Arctic oil on life support

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As drilling technology advances, conventional oil reserves become harder to find, and climate change contributes to melting sea ice, the Arctic has moved up on the list of priorities in oil company board rooms. Oil companies are scratching their heads trying to figure out how to deal with a collapse in oil prices, now below $50 per barrel.

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Does the US Senate Have The Balls To Stand Up For Your Children? Not Without YOU Forcing Them To

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Here on the local scene in the South Bay of Los Angeles our local elected officials are doing their homework, understand the tipping point we now stand upon and are acting to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by completing their carbon inventories and creating Climate Action Plans to get us to the safe zone of 350 ppm of CO2.

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Perspective: Ending Oils Monopolya Blueprint for Mobility Choice

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Volatility hurts us too, for as we’ve learned the price of oil can rise sharply in a short period of time. In fact, four of the last five recessions were started by an oil price spike. [ 2 ] Furthermore, our environment cannot continue to bear the brunt of carbon emissions stemming from our heavy use of oil. Source: EIA.

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

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Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. As Senators Graham, Kerry and Lieberman try to resuscitate the climate change bill by introducing a revised bill in mid-to-late April, twenty-three U.S. Western Climate Initiative (WCI). Representatives Henry A.

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