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New Mexico Adopts Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Program

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The New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) adopted by a vote of four to three greenhouse gas reduction regulations—called the most stringent in the US—that will reduce global warming pollutants through a regional cap on greenhouse gas emissions. New Mexico Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Regulation.

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EV advocates support a just clean energy transition. The Mining Regulatory Clarity Act is not it.

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s initial settlement and colonization of the West and was designed to encourage miners to establish mines by making land and mineral resource rights easy to secure. It means an end to devastating oil spills , local air and water pollution like that in Cancer Alley , and the desecration of Tribal lands from fracking.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

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Review of Forestry Carbon Standards 2008 Ford Partners to Commercialize Electric Vehicles A New "Green" Deal.Direction for the economic re. Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. The current electrical grid is poorly designed for distributed generation of power. 2) Chevy Volt (2) China (2) ECOD3.SA

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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. Participating U.S. states account for approximately one-half of the U.S.

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