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California cap-and-trade spending doubles to $1.4 billion in 2018; xEV rebates, affordable housing, wildfire prevention, public transit

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An annual ' tracking the progress of California Climate Investments, released by the California Air Resources Board and the California Department of Finance, finds that nearly $1.4 billion in new funding last year went to projects across all of California’s 58 counties—almost double the $720 million spent in 2017. Planting more than 3.6

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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The 15 th Congress, also known as the 15 th Conference of Parties, or COP 15, was initially intended to be a largely procedural summit, with many major negotiating points settled and most environmental ministers prepared to sign a binding emissions treaty that contained specific emissions targets as well as commitments to financing structures.

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Packaging second-life EV batteries into a plug-and-play energy storage system

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million grant from the DOE, has developed a solution. Smartville currently has a pilot project up and running at the University of California San Diego. Which means if you have a vehicle that gets totaled before year three, year five, that’s a more polluting car than gasoline. Smartville , which recently won a $5.9-million