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Coltura: Supreme Court precedent means states can require all new vehicles sold be electric

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Recent US Supreme Court precedent has opened the door for states to enact laws requiring all new cars sold in the state to be electric as of a certain date, according to a paper by the nonprofit Coltura published in the University of Michigan Journal of Environmental and Administrative Law. Its vision is a gasoline-free US by 2040 or sooner.

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Bank of America joins Stanford’s Global Climate & Energy Project

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All of humankind needs energy that is reliable, cleaner and more affordable. GCEP, founded 11 years ago, supports research not only at Stanford, but also at universities around the world. Participating universities and sponsors can license the technology to other entities.

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For Greener Manufacturing, Think IAQ

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The next generation of cars will be cleaner and greener than ever—but a lot of the manufacturing processes that go into them are still pretty dirty. A study by the University of San Diego Burnham-Morse Center for Real Estate estimates that worker productivity gains with improved indoor air quality average $5,204 per worker.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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But it took more than a year and scores of meetings for IBM's contract and legal teams to authorize the terms. It did not matter that Microsoft's software was notorious for having bugs or that IBM's was far cleaner. in modern European history from Florida State University. In 1995, IBM CEO Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

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Obama Announces Steps to Boost Biofuels, Clean Coal; RFS2, BCAP, BIWG and Carbon Capture and Storage Task Force

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We’re also going to be talking about some developments we’re making on biofuels, so that more folks can start filling up their cars and trucks with cleaner, American-grown fuels. Feedstock Supply Chain Workforce Development – USDA (REE, FS, and RD) and universities.

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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. One is to operate successfully as a market, with a steady supply of carbon offsets and varying prices to ensure that profits can be made.

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Broad opposition to EPA, NHTSA proposed freeze of GHG, CAFE regs

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But the evidence shows that freezing CAFE standards is hard to justify on economic, social, environmental, or legal grounds. —California Air Resources Board Chair Mary D. We are researchers, not pundits, and so we hesitate to speculate. —The ICCT.

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