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Emissions Defined
Anthropogenic (human-caused) releases of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere (e.g., the release of carbon dioxide during fuel combustion).
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Ottawa misses fuel-efficiency standards deadline
Published January 7, 2009, 9:13 pm, National Post
The federal government appears to have missed a key legislated benchmark to bring in new fuel-efficiency standards that will help Canada reduce greenhouse-gas emissions
2010 Buick LaCrosse: Blue Hair No More! [Detroit Auto Show]
Published January 7, 2009, 9:05 pm, Jalopnik
The 2010 Buick LaCrosse isn't your Grandfather's Buick. Defying conventional wisdom, this Buick sedan sports slick styling, a classy interior and hardware that'll make even the most jaded buyer take...
Lehigh plans to reduce mercury
Published January 7, 2009, 8:38 pm, Carroll County Times
UNION BRIDGE — The leader of an environmental watchdog group will be in New Windsor tonight to discuss a report that revealed high mercury releases out of the Lehigh Cement Co. plant in Union Bridge, but company leaders say the problem has already been solved.
CO2 emissions-cut goal under debate
Published January 7, 2009, 7:46 pm, Asia News Network
International negotiations over a framework for cutting greenhouse gas emissions that will replace the Kyoto Protocol are set to enter their final stage in the run-up to the deadline for the talks in December.
New power plant at Half Moon Bay landfill turns methane into energy
Published January 7, 2009, 7:29 pm, San Mateo County Times
n Half Moon Bay facility collects enough gas from landfill to power 10,000 homes
Now is the time to address mountain pine beetle infestations
Published January 7, 2009, 7:26 pm, Ravalli Republic
Some of the oldest pines on the campus of Montana State University are dead but they don’t know it yet. “They look green now, but by next spring they will be rust red,” said MSU Arborist Rod Walters. “My whole career has been about trees.
The Convergence of Trends
Published January 7, 2009, 6:48 pm, SiliconIndia
Last year we began exploring three major trends impacting our world, our markets, and our customers. These are The Net Effect: this is the emergence of user-created content and the insatiable demand for bandwidth to fuel the multimedia experience.
Letters to the Editor
Published January 7, 2009, 6:38 pm, The Berkeley Daily Planet
Censorship is a controversial issue, as evidenced by the amount of discussion in regard to the censoring of visual art from the Addison Street Windows Gallery. However, unless we are able to view the work, our judgment about this gallery’s decision lacks perspective.
State cracks down on outdoor wood boilers
Published January 7, 2009, 6:21 pm, The Milford Daily News
New statewide regulations established about two weeks ago by the Department of Environmental Protection will limit the amount of pollution emitted by outdoor wood-fired boilers, an issue area towns have tried to tackle in recent years.
The low-energy bulbs that won't fit your light sockets
Published January 7, 2009, 5:59 pm, Daily Mail: World News
Low-energy bulbs are incompatible with millions of lamps and sockets in homes, it has emerged.
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- How underground hot rocks' could power America's future | csmonitor.com: Geothermal heat could meet 10 percent of America?s energy needs by mid-century, according to the US Department of Energy. What?s more, it would not generate the climate-warmin g carbon emissions associated with fossil fuels.
- Lord Meher Volume 4, Page 1195
- Carbon Commentary Tesco vs. Wal-Mart vs. carbon emissions: Wal-Mart?s CDP report shows emissions of about 20m tonnes of CO2, equivalent to about 3% of the UK?s total. Tesco reports a figure of 4m tonnes, of which about 2.3m is in the UK.
- Dispelling Carbon Capture's Scaling Myth: Critics of carbon capture and storage deride the scale of the infrastructure required for it to make a meaningful dent in carbon emissions. But an overlooked national lab study predicts that one infrastructure piece -- the pipelines to transport captured CO2 -- will be miniscule compared to the U.S. natural gas network.
- Personal Emissions Calculator - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Green Car Congress: Study Concludes That Climate Change Alone Could Erode US Improvements in Ground Level Ozone Events Resulting from Reduced Emissions: Global climate change by itself can significantly worsen the severity and frequency of high ground-level ozone (O3) events over most locations in the US, even with relatively small changes in average O3 air quality, according to a new modeling study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University.
- RSA - Carbon Limited - Personal Carbon trading - Home Page
- The Herald Bulletin - PEAT facility: Mayor says no: Hard-working citizens find success in defeating a very bad "waste to energy" bad plasma arc plan for their community in Anderson, Indiana. Congratulation s to Ward & Jody Townsend and their friends and colleagues in Anderson for their success in bringing out the truth about plasma arc incineration. The PEAT plan would have exposed the community to many toxics and would have devalued their property. PEAT has been defeated in Anderson! PEAT (Plasma Energy Applied Technology) is better known now as Poisons, Emissions And Toxics or now perhaps will be remembered as Please Exit Anderson Today ! Communities across the US will be facing similar bad proposals - take heed. This article explains why you should say NO to plasma arc waste to energy proposals in your communities.
- CER : Disclosure of 2007 Fuel Mix Figures
- Carbon Planet : ghg_emission_f actors_for_fli ghts.pdf (application/p df Object)
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