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New Analysis Shows Truck Manufacturers’ Scare Tactic Just a Bunch of Hot Air

Union of Concerned Scientists

Primarily, these have focused on the 2007 EPA regulations, which were the first step in the phase-in of diesel engine standards meant to cut particulate emissions by more than 80 percent and smog-forming nitrogen oxides (NO X ) emissions by 90 percent. Source: ERM 2022 ). Source: ERM 2022 ).

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Ask a Scientist: The US Has to Do More to Meet Its Carbon Emissions Reduction Goals

Union of Concerned Scientists

The legislation committed nearly $400 billion to support, among other things, wind and solar power, battery storage, electric vehicles, and other clean energy technologies that will make a significant dent in US heat-trapping emissions. Last year, Congress passed the most ambitious climate bill ever enacted, the Inflation Reduction Act.

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Sounding Green vs Being Green: How to finance sustainability?

HumanNature

Student in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University As the urgent need to take tough action towards climate mitigation and sustainability gathers pressure, for most major power-holders today, including the markets, institutions, government agencies, media and countries, environmentalism has perhaps become the biggest fashion fad.

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Oil Companies Plan to Take the Road Already Traveled

Union of Concerned Scientists

The oil and gas industry continues to cite such technologies as the answer to removing heat-trapping emissions far in the future, a solution it sees as justification for increasing fossil fuel production, as a recent Congressional investigation showed. Fighting climate disclosure, especially Scope 3 emissions The U.S.

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French company to coordinate carbon capture project in Brazil

Corp Watch

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 In the U.S.

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The Profound Climate Implications of Supreme Court’s West Virginia v. EPA Decision

Union of Concerned Scientists

While this authority—itself rooted in a prior Supreme Court decision , the 2007 Massachusetts v. EPA did not revoke EPA’s underlying authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. What this decision means for the climate.

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'Badly Broken' Bayer postpones split to improve performance

Corp Watch

Application of Biotechnology for Functional Foods (Pew Initiative on Food & Biotechnology, May 2007). Child Bondage Continues in Indian Cotton Supply Chain by Dr. Davuluri Venkateswarlu (India Committee of the Netherlands, September 2007). June 2007). Government (via USA SPENDING). Government (via SAM). Smith (Yes!