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MARCH 6, 2010

This article shows that including offsets in climate change legislation would likely make an emissions program more cost-effective by: (a) providing an incentive for non-regulated sources to generate emission reductions; and (b) expanding emission compliance opportunities for regulated entities. Assuming the offset is legitimate—i.e.,

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JULY 19, 2016

A study by a team of researchers from China and the US has shown that shipping emissions in East Asia accounted for 16% of global shipping CO 2 in 2013, compared to only 4–7% in 2002–2005. However, the climate and air quality impacts from shipping are not well understood in this region.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2014

US President Barack Obama said the US will cut net greenhouse gas emissions in the US by 26-28% below 2005 levels by 2025. per year on average during the 2005-2020 period to 2.3-2.8% The US and China jointly announced greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets. The new US goal will double the pace of GHG reduction from 1.2%

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AUGUST 2, 2012

Population-Weighted Multi Pollutant Index (PW-MPI) values for different regions. Remarkably, the global PW-MPI in 2050 is projected to be similar to that in the Middle East in the year 2005. Source: Pozzer et al. It should be emphasized that this result is strongly influenced by the high population density in Asia (i.e.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Sulfur aerosols impact human health, ecosystems, agriculture, and global and regional climate. The analysis by researchers in the US and Europe estimates anthropogenic global and regional sulfur dioxide emissions spanning the period 1850–2005 using a bottom-up mass balance method, calibrated to country-level inventory data. Resources.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Sulfur dioxide is an air pollutant that causes acid rain, haze and many health-related problems. Two maps compare total annual sulfur dioxide amounts for India and China during 2005 (left) and 2016 based on Ozone Monitoring Instrument measurements. Illustration: Chris McLinden, Environment and Climate Change Canada.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Diesel use exceeded gasoline use from 2005 onwards. Emissions of many pollutants that are particularly damaging to health (carbon monoxide, particulate matter and nitrogen oxides) have reduced following increasingly stringent exhaust emission limits.

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APRIL 2, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted its final Report to Congress on Black Carbon , in response to an October 2009 request from Congress to advance efforts to understand the role of black carbon (BC) in climate change. emissions in 2005. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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APRIL 16, 2015

By sector, power plants were the largest source of emissions, accounting for 31% of total US greenhouse gas pollution. Starting in 2005, the rate of VMT growth slowed considerably (and declined rapidly in 2008) while average new vehicle fuel economy began to increase. Climate Change Emissions' Source: EPA.

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JANUARY 29, 2010

Each Federal Agency was required to submit a 2020 GHG pollution reduction target from its estimated 2008 baseline to the White House Council on Environmental Quality and to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget by January 4, 2010. billion on electricity and fuel in 2008 alone.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

To meet our growing energy needs and prevent the worst consequences of climate change, we need to increase our supply of nuclear power and today’s announcement helps to move us down that path. This is the fifth time that DOE has offered conditional commitments for a loan guarantee under The Energy Policy Act of 2005.

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APRIL 1, 2009

The draft requires states to establish goals for reducing global warming pollution from the transportation sector and requires large metropolitan planning organizations to submit transportation plans to meet those goals. Title III, Reducing Global Warming Pollution , (the cap-and-trade title), has eight subsections.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

“ One Agreement, Two Steps ” Expectations for Copenhagen quickly became complicated after Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen boarded an overnight flight to Singapore to address an impromptu breakfast forum on climate change at the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit on 15 November. by Jack Rosebro.

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JANUARY 13, 2013

Comparison of Hg emissions in 2005 and 2010, by selected sector and region. Apart from contaminated sites, the mercury pollution detected today is often found in locations very far away from its original source. Overall, indications are that emissions from industrial sectors have increased again since 2005. Source: UNEP.

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MAY 13, 2010

Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the details of their long-anticipated energy and climate change legislation on Wednesday, 12 May. compared to 2005 levels.). Farmers are exempt from the carbon pollution compliance obligations in the bill. Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.),

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OCTOBER 21, 2017

below the levels in 2005. The report is based on the JRC’s Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR), which is not only unique in its space and time coverage, but also in its completeness and consistency of the emissions compilations for multiple pollutants: the greenhouse gases (GHG), air pollutants and aerosols.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 7, 2009

With these developing nations having relatively small carbon footprints and millions of people in deep poverty, they can argue the need to continue to pollute while they improve the lives of their citizens. Tags: The Green Piece Copenhagen Copenhagen Climate Change meeting. Who will pay? This is another contentious issue.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

While the goal is to reduce greenhouse gases from passenger vehicles, it also helps clean the air in the state by reducing the amount of pollution that creates smog. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Land use Policy. It will also guide future development decisions so people can live close to where they work and play.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Later in 2010, staff will propose formal regulatory changes to the ZEV program. In 2005, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger enacted Executive Order S-03-052,requiring a reduction in state-wide GHG emissions to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. California GHG Targets and ZEV. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 29, 2016

Surface-level ozone is one of the main pollutants that the national Air Quality Index measures in its effort to let the public know when breathing outside for long periods of time could be harmful. Between 2005 and 2014, the Bakken’s oil production jumped by a factor of 3,500, and its gas production by 180.

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MARCH 16, 2012

In a similar way, the full breadth of impacts attributable to conventional gasoline production, such as natural resource consumption and hazardous pollutant emissions, must also be considered in order to make balanced comparisons to biofuels. Process flow diagrams for E85 and gasoline. Credit: ACS, Yang et al. Credit: ACS, Yang et al.

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MARCH 22, 2010

Since 2005, when major greenhouse-gas emitters among the Kyoto signatories were issued caps on their emissions and permitted to buy credits to meet those caps, there has been more than $300 billion worth of carbon transactions. Verification of the emission reduction or carbon sequestration is critical in efforts to mitigate climate change.

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MARCH 13, 2009

Creation of this database is a big step forward for researching long-term changes in air pollution and correlating these with climate change. Thus, they conclude, the visibility data provide a valid source from which scientists can study correlations between air pollution and climate change.

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MAY 10, 2011

Up to 77% of the world’s energy supply could be met by six key renewables by mid-century under the most optimistic scenario if backed by the right enabling public policies, according to a new report by more than 120 researchers working with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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AUGUST 3, 2015

The rules establish the first national standards to limit CO 2 emissions from fossil-fuel-fired power plants, with a target of a 32% reduction against a 2005 baseline by 2030. EPA said that in addition to its projected climate benefits, the CPP will result in the avoidance each year of : 1,500 to 3,600 premature deaths. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 3, 2017

By 2023, the ports aim to cut emissions of DPM 77%, NO x 59%, and SO x 93% below 2005 levels. Recent air emissions inventories show the ports have surpassed the 2023 pollution reduction goals for DPM (87%) and SO x (97%) and are close to reaching their goal for reducing NO x (56%).

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MARCH 27, 2012

Based on available data, EPA believes that nearly all (95%) of the NGCC units built recently (since 2005) would meet the standard. The proposed standard provides flexibilities for new power plants to phase in technology to reduce carbon pollution: New power plants that use CCS would have the option to use a 30?year on controls.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

The South Bay is defined by the LAX Airport to the north and the Port of Los Angeles to the south - two of the biggest polluters in Southern California. Let me begin by admitting that when you study climate change as I do, you find no comfort or reasons for optimism in the science or the results of the latest research findings.

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JANUARY 30, 2009

The ocean absorbs CO 2 from the atmosphere at a rate of more than 20 million tons per day, thus removing one-fourth of the anthropogenic CO 2 emitted to the atmosphere each year and reducing the climate-change impacts of this greenhouse gas. However, when CO 2 dissolves in seawater, it forms carbonic acid. 2007; Tyrrell et al.,

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AUGUST 29, 2011

Other environmental concerns have pushed ahead of climate change on a global average basis. Three out of four global consumers rated air pollution (77%) and water pollution (75%) as top concerns, both increasing six percentage points compared to 2009. Source: Nielsen. Click to enlarge. Source: Nielsen. Click to enlarge.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 8, 2009

In Torrance we don’t want citizens telling politicians what to do or controlling how the industries that pollute in own city act. That’s because what’s good enough for Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach isn’t good enough for Torrance. That’s too much democracy for Torrance. But of course, it shouldn’t be.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 8, 2008

For more than a year now in this blog I’ve been researching and reporting on climate change, energy and transportation issues and related environmental stories covering them on both a personal and a global perspective. The climate change clock continues to tick on regardless of what happens with our economy or an annual budgets.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Resulting improved strains of maize may, for example, produce larger yields, show resistance to disease, offer efficiencies in nitrogen use that would enable farmers to reduce applications of costly, polluting fertilizers, and tolerate changes in rainfall or temperature accompanying climate change.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2011

The widely held belief that you need to cut mobility to fight climate change is simply not true. The environmental record of shipping can and must be improved by both technology and better fuels and operations: overall, the EU CO 2 emissions from maritime transport should be cut by 40% (if feasible 50%) by 2050 compared to 2005 levels.

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JULY 8, 2015

Geely Auto was the first auto manufacturer in China to conduct research and development into methanol vehicle solutions in 2005, and has since acquired dozens of patents. Earlier post.). Earlier post.) Geely’s Englon SC7 sedan was the first methanol-fueled car to receive approval from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

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APRIL 13, 2012

A climate mitigation policy that focuses on CO 2 emissions supports an increase in the fraction of diesel cars because passenger cars equipped with diesel engines emit on average 15% less CO 2 per kilometer than vehicles with gasoline engines with a similar power output.

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DECEMBER 5, 2019

The findings are outlined in three new papers published in Earth System Science Data , Environmental Research Letters , and Nature Climate Change. —down 50% from its peak in 2005—displaced by cheaper natural gas, wind and solar power, as well as savings from energy efficiency. Jones, Michael O’Sullivan, Robbie M.

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