Remove California Remove Coal Remove Congress Remove Connecticut
article thumbnail

EIA releases report on CO2 emissions by state; California led in 2010 with transportation-sector emissions

Green Car Congress

million tonnes CO 2 ); California (369.8 Examining 2010 energy-related CO 2 emissions from the transportation sector, the report found California was the top transportation emitter (214.0 For example, some states are located near abundant hydroelectric supplies, while others contain abundant coal resources. tonnes/person).

2010 236
article thumbnail

Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

Green Car Congress

On May 25, 1961 President John F Kennedy, in a special joint session of Congress, declared, “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. in Connecticut. in California to $3.43 Source: DSIRE.

Renewable 220
article thumbnail

DOE to award funding to 10 projects at 9 universities for high-hydrogen-fueled turbine technology development

Green Car Congress

The projects will develop technologies for use in a new generation of advanced turbines that operate using coal-derived synthesis gas (syngas) and high hydrogen content (HHC) fuels. University of California-Irvine, Irvine, Calif. University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn. Earlier post.).

Universal 199
article thumbnail

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. Waxman of California and Edward J. Representatives Henry A. Reduced Output.

Gas 244