2011 Biofuels Carbon Emissions Technology 
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 30, 2024
The LCFS is the leading example of a Clean Fuel Standard , an approach to transportation fuel policy that holds oil refiners accountable to reduce the carbon intensity (CI) of transportation fuels. California may seem like an unlikely driver of deforestation from soybean and palm oil biofuels.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 29, 2022
Meanwhile, annual reports show corporations are pushing ahead with plans to expand production, betting on new technologies to somehow make it all okay in the future. Further, these efforts are focused on carbon capture and storage, hydrogen, and biofuels—technologies that aim to stash carbon emissions away, not reduce their production.
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Enviromental Defense
MAY 18, 2021
The decision to ditch coal was the biggest single action of its time to cut carbon emissions in North America. That means carbon emissions from electricity in Ontario will be rising back up again after years of decline. Ontario Electricity Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions Historical and Forecast.
Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 1, 2016
Minnesota Federal Court Said State Biofuel Mandate Was Not Preempted. Opponents of EPA Carbon Standards for New Coal-Fired Power Plants Filed Initial Briefs. Petitioners challenging EPA’s new source performance standards for carbon emissions from power plants filed their opening briefs in the D.C. United States v.
Environmental Progress
JULY 29, 2020
Rather, they resulted in low-wage service sector jobs, greater dependence on imported Chinese technologies, and higher energy costs. And over the last decade, the technology used in the vast majority of installed solar panels has only become 2-3 percent more efficient. The problem with renewables is physical.
Environmental Progress
SEPTEMBER 12, 2020
Thanks in large measure to natural gas replacing coal, the International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts carbon emissions in 2040 to be lower than in almost all of the IPCC scenarios. Carbon emissions are thus following the same trajectory as other air pollutants.
Environmental Progress
FEBRUARY 28, 2021
Technological change and agricultural modernization will significantly outweigh climate change in the U.S. Vegetarianism is not important for protecting the environment or reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Technological change and agricultural modernization will significantly outweigh climate change in the U.S.
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