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OLA S1 Electric Scooter Launch: Our Thoughts

Plug In India

In this article and video we go through the OLA scooter launch event and find, what impressed us and what concerned us. No one in the two wheeler industry nor media speaks about pollution caused by petrol two wheelers. No one in the two wheeler industry nor media speaks about pollution caused by petrol two wheelers.

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Study Finds Government Mandates Superior to All Other Biofuels Policies, But Mixing With Subsidies Causes Adverse Effects; The Argument for a Direct CO2 Tax

Green Car Congress

For example, adding a biofuel subsidy with a consumption mandate fails to increase ethanol consumption but instead subsidizes oil consumption. The gap between the intercept of the ethanol supply curve and the oil price creates large deadweight costs that may overwhelm any external benefits.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

Green Car Congress

This article discusses the process by which the UN approves carbon offsets and the flaws associated with this process. THE APPROVAL PROCESS. The approval process for carbon offsets has two goals. 100% for some agricultural processes. CONCLUSION.

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

Green Car Congress

April, 2008 : In an article entitled Dangerous Assumptions ( earlier post ), Roger Pielke, Jr., Slated for a July 2011 start, it would regulate 1000 of the country's biggest polluters and 75 percent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. “ Internationally, we reject legally binding emissions.

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Bring on the EV Trucks

Revenge of the Electric Car

Add a solar PV system big enough to offset the building’s energy needs and charge the trucks, too, and you’ve just eliminated a whole lot of pollution, kept a lot of money from going out of the country and to the oil companies, and added value to your building. Sounds good to me. Trucks especially. by John Dell.

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California environmental lawyer forecasts the future of state and federal emissions regulations

Charged EVs

California has led the nation in the fight against air pollution. That has been probably the biggest hurdle—not the biggest engineering hurdle, but the biggest legal hurdle. I can barely get my car’s oil changed, and I only do that every three to four months. Q&A with environmental lawyer Maureen Gorsen. That’s huge.

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Former EPA exec surveys the road ahead for US emissions standards

Charged EVs

Since President Nixon signed the Clean Air Act in 1963, federal regulations aimed at reducing air pollution have gradually grown stronger. Charged : The body of federal and state air pollution regulations encompasses both emissions and fuel economy standards, and generates an astounding number of acronyms.

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