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BREAKING NEWS: Exxon/Mobil Ordered Out of Torrance, Guilty of Greenhouse Gas Pollution

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Consider this fair and legal warning, world’s largest and most polluting oil company - I’m giving you 10 years to pack up and hit the road. Scientists’ Report Documents ExxonMobil’s Tobacco-like Disinformation Campaign on Global Warming Science. Maybe they should just go take their lies and pollution somewhere else.

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Researchers calculate social cost of German nuclear phase-out at $12B/year; 70% from increased mortality risk

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More than 70% of this cost comes from the increased mortality risk associated with exposure to the local air pollution emitted when burning fossil fuels; the researchers found that the lost nuclear electricity production due to the phase-out was replaced primarily by coal-fired production and net electricity imports.

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Argonne releases GREET 2020

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Argonne National Laboratory’s Systems Assessment Center has released the 2020 version of the suite of GREET models and associated documentation. Electricity generation efficiency and criteria air pollutant emission factors. road, air, marine, and rail) and other end-use sectors, and energy systems.

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Argonne updates GREET and AFLEET tools for transportation technologies analysis

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The 2017 release of the suite of GREET (Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Transportation) models and associated documentation includes the following expansions and updates: Added plastic-to-fuel (PTF) pathway. Added well-to-pump air pollutants and vehicle cycle petroleum use, GHGs, and air pollutants.

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EPA Sends Proposed GHG Endangerment Finding to White House for Review

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The document does not propose any requirements on any sources of greenhouse-gas emissions. The Agency has also received public comments seeking the addition of GHGs to the pollutants covered by the new source performance standard (NSPS) for several industrial sectors under section 111 of the CAA.

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Public Transit or Private Cars, It's All About the Fuel

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The latest report by the American Public Transportation Association documents a 3.8 But the commuters in poorer nations usually travel in a haze of pollution created by petroleum-powered trains and buses. While burning all those fuels has caused pollution just as surely as gasoline cars and trucks, we have options.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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Moreover, developers must show that the project would make no economic sense without CDM funds and that documentation exists to demonstrate that these factors were considered by the company’s board of directors in their decision to pursue CDM financing. 100% for some agricultural processes. CONCLUSION.

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