Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2023

These results indicate that coal and oil are the energy sources leading to most emissions, and that hydro, wind, and nuclear are the energy sources leading to least emissions. On the two extremes, coal and oil result in about 176 times the emissions from hydro. Natural gas 87.9 Geothermal 16.5 Natural gas 87.9

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West Virginia Emissions Carbon Vermont 345

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Selin and Friedman use the global 3-D chemical transport model GEOS-Chem to track the day-to-day transport of PAHs—toxic byproducts of burning wood, coal, oil and other forms of energy that remain in the atmosphere for less time than other persistent organic pollutants regulated by global standards.

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MIT Transportation Rhode Island Building 218

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. Reduced Output.

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Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate 244

Baua Electric

AUGUST 8, 2024

This is considered quite an ambitious target – only a few states (New York, Michigan, Connecticut, Oregon, and Rhode Island) plan to make the shift by then. During that period, the EPA, run by oil and coal stooges Scott Pruitt and Andrew Wheeler , undertook several initiatives to increase pollution from both vehicles and power plants.

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Climate Minnesota Climate Change EPA 52