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EPA Grants California Vehicle GHG Regulations Waiver

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Shortly after taking office in January, President Barack Obama directed EPA to assess the appropriateness of denying the waiver. More importantly, this decision reinforces the historic agreement on nationwide emissions standards developed by a broad coalition of industry, government and environmental stakeholders earlier this year.

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Stephen Welby: A Man on a Mission

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IEEE’s mission of advancing technology for the benefit of humanity drew him to the organization, he says, after he served a term in the Obama administration as U.S. Welby visiting IEEE's server room in its offices in Piscataway, New Jersey. Meeting with industry leaders and engineering students. About Stephen Welby.

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More states follow California’s clean car standards

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A new Environmental Defence Fund report shows that 13 states have adopted California’s clean car standards that aim to save hundreds of dollars annually at the pump and reduce heat trapping greenhouse gases. The decision follows President Obama’s landmark agreement to adopt federal emission standards for the model years 2012-2016.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Since President Obama signed ARRA into law in February, grants totaling more than $7.2 The facility is a 70,000 square foot building located in an industrial zone in Lowell, Massachusetts. NJ Transit, New Jersey: $250,000. billion have been made available for transit improvements throughout the US. The DOT is making $48.1

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Gas War: Biden Administration Releasing One Million Barrels of Gasoline from Northeast Reserves

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Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Petroleum Reserves , the fuel sale stems from storage facilities situated in New Jersey and Maine. Trump used it as a tactic to bargain with Saudi Arabia in 2019 and Obama sold off millions of barrels to help soften the domestic blow after Libya went sideways in 2011.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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Environmentalists and industries resurrected the idea in recent years as a centerpiece of measures to address global warming and growing oil imports. The Cantwell-Collins plan is almost exactly what Mr. Obama proposed in the campaign and after first taking office–a 100 percent auction of permits and a large tax rebate to the public.

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