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Heat Pumps—The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs

Cars That Think

In other words, an incremental efficiency improvement in heating will have a much bigger overall impact on energy demand and therefore climate change. Another reason is a problem every renter in the world has faced: the person who pays the energy bills isn’t the same as the person who selects and installs the appliances.

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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

Green Car Congress

Oceans, already expanding from warmth and melting glaciers, would rise, increasing coastal flooding; a chain reaction of climate changes is projected to lead to harsher, more widespread droughts and more powerful storms. Reductions in Emissions. Lomborg says.

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Former EPA exec surveys the road ahead for US emissions standards

Charged EVs

Federal emissions and fuel economy regulations have been instrumental in encouraging (or coercing) automakers to produce EVs, and to make their legacy vehicles cleaner. California legally should be able to do their own standards under the Clean Air Act. The agencies will make proposals, but legally, they cannot have final action.

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