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Vote YES on Prop 30!

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30 will impose a small 1.75% personal income tax increase on only the wealthiest Californians (those making more than $2 million per year). Efficient and inexpensive electric vehicles are crucial to California’s goals to address climate change and reduce air pollution. If passed, Prop. We need you to vote YES on Prop.

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California ARB: GHG emissions fell below 1990 levels for first time in 2016; down 13% from 2004 peak; transportation emissions up 2%

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The state’s latest Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory shows that California emitted 429 million metric tons of climate pollutants in 2016—a drop of 12 million metric tons, or three percent, from 2015. They fell 23% from a peak of 14 metric tons per person (roughly equal to driving 34,000 miles) in 2001 to 10.8

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A stack of lies you could drive a Toyota HiLux through | Opinion

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It is akin to him saying that America has some of the best abortion and gun-control laws in the world, or that China has one of the fairest and most transparent systems of justice. That’s a disturbing, upsetting number, and one the flies in the particularly bald face of Peter Dutton, but it doesn’t surprise me, personally, at all.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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“ One Agreement, Two Steps ” Expectations for Copenhagen quickly became complicated after Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen boarded an overnight flight to Singapore to address an impromptu breakfast forum on climate change at the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit on 15 November. by Jack Rosebro.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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Her dissertation focused on developing methods to determine a baseline for concentrations of pollutants in the atmosphere based on historical spatial-temporal measurements. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ’s satellites over extended areas of North America and the Gulf of Mexico. She earned her Ph.D.

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What EPA vehicle standards are and what they mean for you

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These rules set progressively lower limits on tailpipe pollution on vehicles manufactured between 2027 and 2032. In fact, to address smog and pollution in many U.S. In fact, to address smog and pollution in many U.S. EPA has been regulating vehicle pollution for over 50 years. EPA standards aren’t new.

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