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Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program accepting application for 2017 awards

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Toyota Motor Corporation has begun accepting applications today for this year’s Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program , which is designed to support environmental revitalization and conservation activities aimed at sustainable development both in Japan and overseas. 2016 Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program Recipients.

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State Department issues Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on Keystone XL Pipeline: climate change impacts

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The document is a detailed draft technical review of potential environmental impacts associated with the segment of the pipeline in the US, including: impacts from construction, impacts from potential spills, impacts related to climate change, and economic impacts. What Keystone XL would carry. tank-to-wheels, TTW). —Draft SEIS.

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Perspective: The Role of Offsets in Climate Change Legislation

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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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Nemaska Lithium secures $12.87M grant from SDTC for Phase 1 lithium hydroxide plant

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million technology commercialization grant for its Phase 1 lithium hydroxide hydromet plant from the federally-funded Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC). The Phase 1 plant, designed to produce 500 tonnes per year of high purity lithium hydroxide, is designed be a module of a larger commercial hydromet plant.

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California Governor signs new super-pollutants legislation into law; black carbon, fluorinated gases and methane

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Black carbon, for example, has a global warming potential 3200 times that of CO 2 on a 20-year time scale. Reducing these pollutants can have a more immediate beneficial impact on climate change. Worldwide, methane emissions alone are responsible for approximately 20 percent of current global warming.

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Purdue’s whitest white paint now a Guinness World Record; sub-ambient radiative cooling

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reflectivity compares to a reflectivity of 80–90% for other white paints designed to reflect sunlight that are currently available. by painting roofs) to reverse global warming to date. An ultra-white paint incorporating barium sulfate (BaSO 4 ) particles that is up to 98.1% 1% of Earth’s surface to be coated in this paint (e.g.,

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Obama climate plan calls for new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018; cleaner fuels and investment in advanced fossil energy

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Preparing the US for the impacts of climate change. This solicitation is designed to support investments in innovative technologies that can cost-effectively meet financial and policy goals, including the avoidance, reduction, or sequestration of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases.

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