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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. Underground, forest soils and root structures store even more carbon. Click to enlarge.

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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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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.