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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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If it were legal to deliver rescued migrants to Libya, it would be as cheap as sending rescue boats a few extra kilometers south instead of east. Meanwhile, legal scholars and civil-society groups are asking whether a hands-off border can really keep Europe’s hands clean. The main reason is because the E.U. million people.

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Massachusetts sets state GHG emissions limit for 2020 at 25% below 1990 levels, releases plan with additional measures, including Pay As You Drive auto insurance

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premium into a variable cost based on. to reduce discretionary driving, while cutting the overall cost of insurance due to. and costs for gasoline, accidents, and. PAYD would convert a large fixed annual. miles traveled, creating a major incentive. fewer accidents. Miles driven would fall. congestion. reduction).

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New Study Finds Flaw in Carbon Accounting for Bioenergy, Another Contends That Indirect Land Use Change Emissions for Biofuels Will Be Up To Twice Direct Land Use Change Emissions

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Thirteen scientists and land use experts conclude in a new paper that an important but fixable error in legal accounting rules used to measure compliance with carbon limits for bioenergy could undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging deforestation. Their paper is published in the 23 Oct.

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Ethanol Groups File Suit Challenging Constitutionality of California Low Carbon Fuel Standard

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The OAL ensures that agency regulations are clear, necessary, legally valid, and available to the public. If ARB does not withdraw the rule to fix these deficiencies, OAL must return the rule to ARB—as was done to the Phase 3 Reformulated Gasoline regulations after OAL determined ARB had failed to respond to comments. gCO 2 e/MJ).

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Former EPA exec surveys the road ahead for US emissions standards

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EPA then worked with the state of California and NHTSA, which sets fuel economy standards—in the mid-1970s, President Ford established the law that NHTSA is using to improve fuel economy, and the basis was not climate change, but energy security. California legally should be able to do their own standards under the Clean Air Act.

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