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EGEB: British secret service is spying on countries’ polluting actions

Electrek

Oil production in Alaska reaches lowest level in more than 40 years. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. more… The post EGEB: British secret service is spying on countries’ polluting actions appeared first on Electrek.

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

Green Car Congress

This brief study analyzes, for each individual state, the changes from 2018 to 2020 in the use of coal (one of the two most polluting energy sources) to generate electricity. In 2020, only two states used oil to generate more than 3% of the electricity: 66% in Hawaii and 16% in Alaska.) Natural gas. Geothermal.

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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

Green Car Congress

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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Electrifying School Buses

Noodoe

In cities in the US, researchers have found that transportation pollution causes 25% of all new childhood asthma cases. Schools in states with high solar energy production like California, Texas, and Florida can especially benefit. While asthma prevalence is no longer rising, it isn’t getting significantly better. The Bottom Line.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008 Green Education = Environmental Religion? Individuals and businesses lose months and connect fees when they add solar and other forms of renewable energy to the grid. Why not ake it all the way and spend 1 year of Iraq on retrofitting every home in America with nano solar.

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

Green Car Congress

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. INTRODUCTION. Graham recently declared, “ Economy-wide cap-and-trade is dead. ”

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