Creative Greenius

JULY 9, 2009

While the finely tailored and pampered leaders of the G8 met in Italy to talk the issue of climate change to death and do nothing tangible about it, activists with a more realistic sense of urgency started to take the necessary action to start cutting greenhouse gases right now.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 25, 2024

The investigation follows an earlier report issued by German environmental group Deutsche Umwelt Hilfe (DUH), which stated the BMW X3 2.0d possessed an illegal defeat device that allowed vehicles to pollute more under certain conditions. So there’s reason to believe it might have uncovered similar shenanigans here.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2016

and Par Hawaii Refining that resolves alleged Clean Air Act violations and protects public health by reducing air pollution at six refineries. million civil penalty that Tesoro will pay, the United States will receive $8,050,000, and co-plaintiffs including the states of Alaska and Hawaii, and the Northwest Clean Air Agency will share $2.4

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Setec Powerr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Our principal goal should be to mitigate problems that are global in scale, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, virus transmission, and invasive species. In the United States, most of our use of fossil fuels is for transportation. Automobiles became more energy-efficient and less polluting.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2012

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and partners have launched a new initiative that aims to reduce pollution levels, improve resource efficiency and reduce infrastructure costs in cities across the world. Up to 80% of the world population is expected to reside in cities by 2050.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2011

A new Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) study shows finds that oil from algae grown in outdoor raceway ponds located in the Gulf Coast, the Southeastern Seaboard and the Great Lakes could replace 17% of the United States’ imported oil for transportation. The paper is published in the journal Water Resources Research.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2016

In a first attempt to gauge the scope of the United States’ high-efficiency technology supplier sector for heavy-duty trucks and buses, CALSTART conducted an initial scan of businesses and identified and mapped 255 companies. —Bill Van Amburg, senior vice president of CALSTART.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2015

WATER adopts a water footprint methodology, and contains extensive climate, land use, water resource, and process water data. Grey water footprint = volume equivalent water required to assimilate pollutant loading. analyzes the impacts of producing hydrocarbon fuel from wood resources on water supplies in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Meanwhile, energy consumption, materials use, municipal waste generation, and land development rates have all outpaced population growth over the last several decades in the United States, contributing to the impact of these activities. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Land use Policy.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2016

Emergent Polymer Sensing Technologies for Gulf Coast Water Quality Monitoring This collaboration between Mississippi and Alabama develops advanced polymer-based sensing technologies to detect pollutants in Gulf Coast aquatic ecosystems. University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. Edward Peltier.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2009

A combination of reducing deforestation on land, allied to restoring the coverage and health of these marine ecosystems could deliver up to 25% of the emissions reductions needed to avoid dangerous climate change. Credit: Riccardo Pravettoni, UNEP/GRID-Arendal. Click to enlarge. Wider Benefits.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

On the environmental side, the team considered what such a change in fuel type would mean both for air quality in terms of criteria pollutants and for cumulative greenhouse gas emissions. Such a network could: Enable a faster transition to renewable natural gas, biogas and waste-to-energy pathways. Environmental considerations.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

According to the market-analysis firm Point Carbon, if a cap-and-trade system is instituted in the United States, the demand for carbon credits could explode into a $2 to $3 trillion market. Verification of the emission reduction or carbon sequestration is critical in efforts to mitigate climate change. Lack of Additionality.

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Green Car Congress

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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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. Just one solitary person tasked with coordinating the entire regions’ emissions inventory and helping each city create its climate action plan to reduce its carbon footprint.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2018

After decades of stagnation and decline, the United States has re-emerged as a low-cost location for chemicals production thanks to the shale gas revolution, and is now home to around 40% of the global ethane-based petrochemical production capacity. The dynamism of the petrochemical industry is also driving new trends around the world.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 28, 2023

EVs will/will not create more pollution than they eliminate. Scaling is hard Let me be very clear: Transitioning to electric vehicles and renewable energy to combat climate change are valid goals in themselves. For example, in January 2023 the sales of EVs in the United States reached 7.83 Join the crowd.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2015

Methane is the second-most prevalent greenhouse gas emitted in the United States from human activities; nearly 30% of those emissions come from oil production and the production, transmission and distribution of natural gas. EPA required green completions for hydraulically fractured natural gas wells in its 2012 rules.

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Plug in America

JANUARY 24, 2024

Electrifying transportation is critical to addressing the climate crisis and cutting tailpipe emissions, both of which disproportionately harm Indigenous, Black, and other communities of color. For over 150 years, hardrock mining in the United States has been governed by the General Mining Law of 1872.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2009

In general, biofuels made from organic waste are environmentally more benign than those from energy crops. Low-input cultivation of perennial plants, e.g. from short-rotation forestry and grasslands, may be an effective source of cellulosic biomass and provide environmental benefits (reduced pollution and lower greenhouse gas emissions).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

Intentional-use sectors: Disposal and incineration of product waste, cremation emissions, chlor-alkali industry. Apart from contaminated sites, the mercury pollution detected today is often found in locations very far away from its original source. Source: UNEP. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

It was one of the deadliest and most damaging natural disasters to ever make landfall in the United States. So, vulnerable communities in Puerto Rico and elsewhere must decide how they will cope with future disasters, intensified by the effects of a changing climate. In September 2017 , Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico.

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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. First off you might be surprised that our cities have Climate Action Plans, but don’t be.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 12, 2009

We already gave the Killer Coal Family a chance to stop disrespecting us and make things right - but what did those climate-changing con artists do instead? They aimed more smokestacks at us and dumped toxic waste in our neighborhoods while they paid off the cops and the justice system to get away with it. That just ain’t right.

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Cars That Think

MAY 9, 2024

The thousands of rocket launches needed to loft and maintain these space power stations would dump lots of soot, carbon dioxide, and other pollutants into the stratosphere, with uncertain climate impacts. These rectennas would then convert the signal to usable DC electricity.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 2, 2009

And by sexy I mean hot and arousing, the way I get when serious people talk serious talk about renewable energy, about the revolution that’s needed to respond to climate change and about the reality of current world situation. The dirty trucks and dirty ships each account for 50% of the pollution at the ports.

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Wallbox

JANUARY 4, 2021

Second, the United States Department of Energy explains that maintenance costs are lower for EVs because they have fewer fluids (oil and transmission fluid) that need to be changed and far fewer moving parts that need maintenance or replacing.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The potential is enormous because the current grid has sufficient energy capacity to supply every vehicle in the United States if every one of them was a PHEV. To ignore this potential is wasteful and foolish. It is wasteful and destructive to be burning this versatile molecule; we must stop.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Vehicle-to-grid is, I believe, the salvation of the automotive industry in the United States,” declared Marc Spitzer, an agency commissioner who was also on the panel. Every scrap of waste food, garden trimmings and even sewage would be used to ferment gas. While utilities such as E.ON

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Not to be outdone, on Tuesday the Norwegian electric car startup, Think, was in Portland being wooed by the state as one of 8 potential places to site their first car manufacturing facility in the United States. April 10, 2009 2:28 pm Link Nothing pollutes more than the tailpipe of a internal combustion engine car.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Oceans, already expanding from warmth and melting glaciers, would rise, increasing coastal flooding; a chain reaction of climate changes is projected to lead to harsher, more widespread droughts and more powerful storms. Do we really want to be remembered as the generation that wasted another decade? Reductions in Emissions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J.

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