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As states use less coal for electricity, driving electric vehicles becomes even cleaner

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These results indicate that coal and oil are the energy sources leading to most emissions, and that hydro, wind, and nuclear are the energy sources leading to least emissions. On the two extremes, coal and oil result in about 176 times the emissions from hydro.

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As states continue to use less coal for electricity, driving electric vehicles becomes even cleaner

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These results indicate that coal and oil are the energy sources leading to most emissions, and that hydro, wind, and nuclear are the energy sources leading to least emissions. On the two extremes, coal and oil result in about 176 times the emissions from hydro. from coal. Energy source. Natural gas. West Virginia. West Virginia.

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Alaska Native Corporation Proposes Underground Coal Gasification Project with Carbon Capture for Power Generation

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Underground coal gasification uses paired wells in a coal seam: one an oxidant injection well, the other the syngas producer well. CIRI), an Alaska Native corporation, is proposing an underground coal gasification (UCG) project that would use the resulting syngas to fuel a new 100 MW combined cycle power plant.

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Study: 87% of world’s population in 2013 lived in areas exceeding WHO PM2.5 guidelines

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The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2013 provided important estimates of the global health impacts attributable to ambient air pollution. Ambient particulate matter air pollution (PM 2.5 , particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter 2.5 Ambient particulate matter air pollution (PM 2.5 , particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter 2.5

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US Global Change Research Program Issues Report on Impacts of Climate Change in US; Details Point to Potential Value of Early, Aggressive Action

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The study also finds that the current trend in the emission of greenhouse gas pollution is significantly above the worst-case scenario that this and other reports have considered. Declines in mountain snowpack are important in the West and Alaska where snowpack provides vital natural water storage.

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Obama sets goal of reducing US oil imports by 1/3 by 2025; domestic and Western Hemisphere production, natural gas, biofuels, electric vehicles, fleet purchases

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We’re also exploring and assessing new frontiers for oil and gas development from Alaska to the Mid- and South Atlantic. We have to discover and produce cleaner, renewable sources of energy with less of the carbon pollution that threatens our climate. But let’s be honest—it’s not the long-term solution to our energy challenge.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

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Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. Thinking Globally, Acting Locally San Francisco City Carbon Collobarative 18th and 1. Review of Forestry Carbon Standards 2008 Ford Partners to Commercialize Electric Vehicles A New "Green" Deal.Direction for the economic re. ► January (13) What Goes Down, Must Go Up?

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