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EPA proposes air pollution standards for oil and gas drilling operations; focus on capture of escaping natural gas

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This significant reduction would largely be accomplished by capturing natural gas that currently escapes to the air and making that gas available for sale through technologies and processes already in use by several companies and required in some states.

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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

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The government assisted the shift by giving sugar companies subsidized loans to build ethanol plants, as well as guaranteeing prices for their ethanol products. Automobile manufacturers were given tax breaks to produce cars that ran on hydrous ethanol, and, by 1980, every automobile company in Brazil was following this lead.

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Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

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This project, to which Volkswagen contributes along with companies such as UPS, repairs and preserves a ~24,000-acre native redwood forest, increasing carbon sequestration and storage, while also helping to restore the natural wildlife habitat. ozone depletion potential (ODP). photochemical ozone creation potential.

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California ARB issues official notification for Feb GHG allowance auction

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offer 12,924,822 2013 current vintage allowances and 9,560,000 year 2016 future vintage allowances for sale. allowances offered for sale and includes State-owned allowances and allowances. Destruction of Ozone Depleting Substances. The February 2013 allowance auction will. consigned by the electricity distribution utilities.