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DEP Invests Over $2.7 Million In Alternative Fuel Transportation Projects To Improve Air Quality & Public Health, Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

PA Environment Daily

million in Alternative Fuel Incentive Grants (AFIGs) to 18 cleaner fuel transportation projects statewide that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollutants. Vehicles alone release 21 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in the state, a known greenhouse gas and direct contributor to climate change.

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Cars, Smog, and EPA

Legal Planet

Apparently Congress did not relish the task of periodically resetting the standards itself The 1990 Amendments authorized EPA to set standards for 2004 and beyond. In April of 2023, the Biden Administration proposed new standards for cars, SUVs, and light trucks that covering both greenhouse gases and conventional pollutants like NOx.

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Plasma processing challenges in the era of sub-nanometre-node semiconductor devices

Physics World

The reduction of CO 2 and other greenhouse gases is another growing challenge in the semiconductor manufacturing industry as the cost and energy consumption of device manufacturing continue to grow. His interest also includes plasma medicine, nuclear fusion, and AI and machine learning applications in plasma science and technologies.

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As Soon as Possible

Real Climate

Well, back in 1993 (before the more comprehensive critiques had been published), Hoyt and Schatten put together a long-term estimate of solar activity that relied on the SCL, based on the idea from FCL91 and scaled to a finding about cycling and non-cycling stars that turned out to be wrong too (Wright, 2004). 1273-1278, 2004.

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The Rise and Fall of the “Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation”

Real Climate

Since it was a control simulation with no external “forcing” (no greenhouse gas changes, no variations in solar output, no volcanic eruptions, etc.), Shindell et al, 2004 ). any oscillation that was produced has to be internally generated. Consider a parallel analysis (Figure 1-right) of the CMIP5 historical simulations.

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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

For years CAPP has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to boost advertising on Facebook , including ads that explicitly urged people to oppose limits on greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas industry. As always, the format is satirical but the information is real.

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Arctic Voyage Highlights Less Sea Ice Due to a Warming Climate

Ocean Conservancy

Lawson chaired the Arctic Council’s Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment from 2004 to 2009. Join us in t e l l ing the Coast Guard to lead the way on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from ship traffic at the International Maritime Organization and to better prepare for climate-related changes here at home.

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