Carbon Coal Legal Resource 
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 4, 2010
In addition, President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum creating an Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage to develop a comprehensive and coordinated federal strategy to speed the development and deployment of advanced lower-emission coal technologies.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 12, 2010
President Obama’s Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), co-chaired by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Energy (DOE), delivered a series of recommendations to the president on overcoming the barriers to the widespread, cost-effective deployment of CCS within 10 years.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 15, 2013
The proposal was drafted as two measures, the Climate Protection Act —which sets the carbon price and finance programs for sustainable technologies—and the Sustainable Energy Act —which ends federal support for fossil fuel companies and research and extends tax incentives for renewables. per year over a 10-year period.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 22, 2010
Since 2005, when major greenhouse-gas emitters among the Kyoto signatories were issued caps on their emissions and permitted to buy credits to meet those caps, there has been more than $300 billion worth of carbon transactions. The approval process for carbon offsets has two goals. THE APPROVAL PROCESS.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 3, 2010
The National Petrochemical & Refiners Association (NPRA) filed a legal challenge to California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) with the US District Court, Eastern District of California, Fresno Division. 110-140, 121 Stat. 1492, and the federal Renewable Fuels Standard. By regulating the fuel pathway of transportation fuels—i.e.,
Green Car Congress
APRIL 1, 2009
Among the direct transportation-related provisions in the extensive package are a low-carbon fuel standard for all transportation fuels; financial support for large scale demonstrations of electric vehicles; and financial support for automakers retooling plants to make electric vehicles. Carbon Capture and Sequestration.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 7, 2011
Carbon-dioxide emissions from these larger vehicles are 5–15% higher as a result (4.69×10 10 11 kg with no size changes)—the equivalent to adding three to ten coal-fired power plants to the electricity grid each year. 10 11 –5.17×10 10 11 kg for one year of produced vehicles compared to 4.47×10 —Whitefoot and Skerlos.
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