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Glossary of Greenhouse Gas Terms

Greenbuilding Law

With proposed federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions by the Securities and Exchange Commission requiring GHG disclosure and new state statutes, including a new Maryland law that requires not only disclosure, but also a mandated reduction in GHG emissions, a greater appreciation of the subject of GHG appears in order.

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Something Stinks: California Must End Manure Biomethane Accounting Gimmicks in its Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Union of Concerned Scientists

Under the LCFS each fuel pathway gets a unique carbon intensity (CI) based on a lifecycle analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production and use of the fuel. The CI of an electric vehicle charged with solar power is zero, and most of the biofuels fall somewhere in the middle [i].

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Three sustainable fuels that could be the future of green aviation

A Greener Life

One year later , it scheduled more than 200 trial flights between Paris and Amsterdam using biofuel made from used cooking oil. Biomass and municipal waste. Saville says that biomass , made from algae, crop residues, animal waste, forestry residue and municipal waste, could also have big potential as aviation fuel. “If

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The Real Cost of Food

Acoel

While our industrial food system is producing food that appears inexpensive and abundant (indeed, food is comparatively so inexpensive to most Americans, that the country wastes over 35% of it), it’s also one of the largest sources of water, air, and climate pollution in the country. Nitrous oxide is even more damaging to our atmosphere.

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U.S. Pushes Farmers to Develop A New Crop: Energy

Circle of Blue

Despite pushback from environmental groups concerned about increased water pollution from a new tide of farm wastes, developers across the country see opportunities to build ambitious renewable energy projects to convert crops and agricultural wastes to low-carbon energy. greenhouse gas emissions.