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Senate Energy Bill Contains $3.8B for Natural Gas Vehicle Conversion and Purchasing, $400M for Plug-in Vehicle Deployment

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Heading into the weekend, the bill only dealt with oil spills, natural gas vehicles, Home Star and land and water. In general, rebates will offset 90% of the incremental cost of a qualified alternative fuel vehicle to a qualified owner for the purchase of a 15 qualified alternative fuel vehicles.

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MIT Energy Initiative Publishes Report on Reducing CO2 Emissions from Existing Coal Plants

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In the interim, we need a large, focused, federal program to develop and demonstrate commercial-scale technologies. Such plants make up less than half of the existing fleet. We urgently need technology options for these plants and policies that incentivize implementation. We may not see a strong CO 2 price signal for many years.

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