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EPA announces $46M for latest Diesel Emissions Reduction Act funding

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Over the last three years, EPA has provided nearly $300 million in grants and rebates to modernize diesel fleets with cleaner heavy-duty trucks and equipment, according to EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler. Region 6 (Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas) will accept applications requesting up to $2,500,000 in grant funds.

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Electric vehicle charging stations worth a complete of quite $1.7 million

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million is coming to 26 government agencies, universities, and electric utilities in Louisiana. Department of Justice and Volkswagen over violations of the Clean Air Act. Volkswagen sold about 590,000 vehicles equipped with devices that defeated their pollution control features, leading to increased emissions of oxide.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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The other goal, of course, is the system’s ultimate purpose: to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by channeling funds into cleaner technologies. United Nations Clean Development Mechanism. Mr. Donovan drafted the “Advanced Biofuel Industry Development Initiative” for the State of Louisiana. CONCLUSION. Donovan (3 March 2010).

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EPA Administrator broadly outlines Trump Administration thinking on fuel economy standards and California

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Wheeler adduced four reasons to support that argument: price, safety, environmental impact and incentivizing the purchase of new, cleaner, safer cars. To borrow from Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, CAFE does not stand for California Assumes Federal Empowerment. criteria pollutants. -Ed.] Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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Renergie was formed for the initial purpose of raising capital to develop, construct, own and operate a decentralized network of ten modular-designed small advanced biofuel manufacturing facilities (SABMFs) in the parishes of the State of Louisiana which were devastated by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. ]. Donovan, CEO of Renergie, Inc.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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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. INTRODUCTION. Overview of RGGI. Gases: CO 2 emissions. WCI covers seven U.S.

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