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USGS assessment finds mean CO2 storage potential of 3,000 gigatonnes in US

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Two other regions with significant storage capacity include the Alaska region and the Rocky Mountains and Northern Great Plains region. As an acceptable condition for US government support for public financing of new coal plants overseas.

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EIA releases report on CO2 emissions by state; California led in 2010 with transportation-sector emissions

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tonnes/person) and Alaska (54.6 The states with the highest carbon intensity of their economies as measured in metric tons of carbon dioxide per million dollars of state GDP (mt CO 2 /million dollars of GDP) are also the states with the highest values of energy intensity and carbon intensity of that energy supply. tonnes/person).

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Auto Industry Weighs in Against Murkowski Amendment that Delays EPA Regulation of Stationary Source CO2 Emissions

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Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski proposed Amendment Number 2530 to H.R. As manufacturers, we are sympathetic to the thrust of Senator Murkowski’s amendment that the Congress—and not simply EPA acting under the provisions of the current Clean Air Act—should determine how best to reduce US greenhouse gas emissions economy-wide.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

CDM Baby, CDM Ruminations on Vegas and NASCAR California Dreamin' ► February (16) Car Sharing and Saving in a Tough Economy Throwing down the gauntlet to Secretary Clinton Weather Does Not Equal Climate The Hub Lab Seeks Revolutionary New Energy Science. No more Big OIL - think of the extra money stimulating the economy!

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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.