Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

In 1975, General Ernesto Geisel, then-president of Brazil, ordered the country’s gasoline supply mixed with 10% ethanol. The level was raised to 25% over the next five years, which was intended to maintain a constant Brazilian gasoline supply for an ever-increasing demand. Pursuant to 40 CFR § 80.27(a)(2):

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 16, 2021

Meanwhile, environmentalists were voicing concern—about how noisy such aircraft are taking off, about the possibility that their high-altitude emissions would erode the ozone layer, and about how disruptive the sonic booms would be. Boom has stated that its plane will go supersonic only over water.

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Oklahoma City Ozone Oklahoma Fuel 105

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Losses of tropical and temperate mountain glaciers affecting perhaps 20-25% of the human population in terms of drinking water, irrigation and hydro-power. The hole in the ozone layer has had a cooling effect on Antarctica, and is partly responsible for masking expected warming on the continent.

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Climate Change Climate 2007 Ozone 259

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2011

If competition for bioenergy feedstocks intensifies because of low supply, the price will likely increase. Biofuels production has been shown to have both positive and negative effects on water quality, soil, and biodiversity. Barriers and opportunities.

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Renewable Tax Credit Conversion Standards 252

Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2009

Mikhail Chester and Arpad Horvath inventoried on-road, rail, and air travel to determine energy consumption, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and criteria air pollutant (CAP) emissions (excluding PM, lead, and ozone due to lack of data). 83% of rail passenger kilometers are performed by metropolitan systems (with Amtrak serving the remaining).

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Light Emissions Energy Boston 150

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JULY 20, 2021

John Snow's 1854 Broad Street map of cholera contagion in London was not only instrumental in identifying lessons learned—the most important being that cholera was transmitted via the water supply—but also in improving policymaking during the crisis. Such a plan can disarm opposition before it arises.

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Chad London Iceland Ozone 98

Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2015

MRC lists the amount of chemical usage on its website, monitors chemicals in the water table, doesn’t use the herbicide within the watercourse protection zones, and plans to phase out the use of the chemical by 2020. Looking down to the water from the bridge, one can see fish flitting about in the clear water. Click to enlarge.

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Carbon Personal Store Emissions 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2009

Policy instruments are needed to help adjust the overall demand for (non-food) biomass at levels which can be supplied by sustainable production such as: effective incentives to increase efficient use of biomass and mineral resources; incentives to reduce fuel consumption for transportation. However very few studies include water use impacts.

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Conversion Water Emissions 2009 150