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Berkeley Lab releases 8th edition of databook on China’s energy and environment; finding the “missing” energy consumption

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We have gathered statistical information on energy and energy demand drivers from all different resources, such as the China Environment Yearbook , the Transportation Yearbook , the Power Yearbook , the Iron and Steel Yearbook , the Cement Almanac , statistics of oil companies and power companies. —David Fridley.

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BP agrees to add more than $400M in pollution controls at Whiting Refinery and pay $8M Clean Air Act penalty

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has agreed to pay an $8 million penalty and invest more than $400 million to install advanced pollution controls and cut emissions from BP’s petroleum refinery in Whiting, Ind. Moreno, Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the DOJ. Earlier post.). —Ignacia S.

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Motiv Power Systems delivering 7 electric walk-in vans to USPS as part of CARB program; deployment in Central Valley

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Motiv Power Systems (Motiv), a leading provider of all-electric medium-duty fleet chassis, has begun deliveries of Ford E-450-based all-electric walk-in vans to the United States Postal Service (USPS). The pilot program of seven Motiv-powered vans is slated for deployment in California’s Central Valley.

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ICCT analysis finds real-world vehicle fuel consumption gap in Europe at all-time high of 42%

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A companion analysis by the ICCT indicates that similar gaps between official and real-world CO 2 emissions exist in China, Japan, and the United States. However, says Dr. Peter Mock, Managing Director of ICCT Europe, since 2001 Europe has seen the largest increase in its gap. com (Spain); and the car club TCS (Switzerland).

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Peking University team develops method for modeling historical global black carbon emissions from motor vehicles with reduced uncertainty

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Black carbon is a key short-lived climate change forcer ( earlier post ) and motor vehicles are important sources of BC in the environment. A subsequent emission inventory for Asia estimated total BC emissions from on-road vehicles in this region alone to be 294 and 446 Gg in 2001 and 2006, respectively. —Wang et al.

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The View From Here Today

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In 2001 she terminated our grass lawns and replaced them with drought tolerant plants because of her concerns for water use. We’re also only 12 miles from the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach – the two largest stationary sources off air pollution and all their related greenhouse gases in L.A.

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

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The last official UNFCCC meeting prior to the 15 th Congress ended 6 November in Barcelona, and environment ministers have been shuttling in and out of Copenhagen since then to conduct ad hoc negotiations prior to the summit. That is what matters, and that matters to the whole world ” [ 7 ].

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