Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2012

Hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) extracts natural gas by injecting a mixture of water, sand, and chemicals in short bursts at high pressure into deep underground wells. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2012. CCS, due to the large net volumes of injected fluids, may have potential for inducing larger seismic events.

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Oil-Sands Gas Water Oil 250

Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2012

The National Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) Project has released two major reports that synthesize its findings from the past several years of work: a Technical Analysis Report (TAR) and Policy Design Recommendations. In the cap-and-trade debate [in Washington] there was no real template, it was political from the beginning.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

The Copenhagen timeline was designed to allow signatory countries two years to hash out details of their respective compliance issues so that a replacement protocol could be ratified and “entered into force”, or made operational internationally, by the time the Kyoto Protocol expires. by Jack Rosebro.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2015

The assessment, done at the request of Congress, found that hydraulic fracturing activities in the US are carried out in a way that have not led to widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources. The report identified potential vulnerabilities to drinking water resources, but was not designed to be a list of documented impacts.

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Water EPA Oil-Sands Oil 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2014

First, to design and build the “Mach-I” prototype vehicle maintaining donor vehicle architectural space and using commercially available or demonstrated materials and processes while delivering a 22% reduction compared to the baseline vehicle. Mach-II design and CAE is underway now. The Mach-II design is still 150 kg over its target.

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