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Is It Possible to Phase Out Petroleum and Transform our Transportation System?

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Replacing petroleum with renewable electricity as the primary source of transportation energy will leave us all much better off. Our transportation system is highly inequitable, reflecting decades of misguided and biased decisions at all levels of government. How do we make this transformation happen?

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BETO Announces that Scientists from Multiple National Labs Are Finding New Ways to Convert Carbon Dioxide into Affordable Biofuels and Bioproducts

Brag

JANUARY 24, 2023

With atmospheric carbon dioxide levels on the rise, “innovative research that finds ways to transform CO 2 in the atmosphere into something positive is more important than ever.” BETO notes that the long-term challenge of the research will be scaling up scientific findings into commercial applications.

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

California’s transportation fuel policy is knee deep in cow poop, and it’s not a good look. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering amendments to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation, but indicated they have no plans to address the problems caused by counter-productive subsidies for manure biomethane.

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BETO Announces R&D Collaborations to Address Challenges in Biomanufacturing

Brag

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The selected projects all directly contribute to producing renewable biofuels and biobased chemicals and materials. They also help ABF build foundational technologies critical for the decarbonization of the industrial and transportation sectors.

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California Air Resources Board Releases Draft Scoping Plan Update (Part 3)

Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2022

CARB doubles down on LCFS Program and liquid transportation fuels. The program’s original target was to reduce the carbon intensity (CI) of transportation fuel used in California by 2020 at least 10% from a 2010 baseline. Transportation fuels sold in California with CIs higher than the benchmark generate deficits.

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Glossary of Greenhouse Gas Terms

Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

volume mixing ratio), together with a number of trace gases, such as argon (0.93% volume mixing ratio), helium, radiatively active greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (0.035% volume mixing ratio), and ozone. Biofuels Gas or liquid fuel made from plant material. The dry atmosphere consists almost entirely of nitrogen (78.1%

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DEP Awards $2.9 Million In Grants To Schools, Businesses, Local Governments To Switch To Zero- Or Low-Emission Vehicles; Next Round Of Applications Due Dec. 15

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2023

“The Shapiro Administration is committed to supporting municipalities, school districts, and businesses that want to make zero- or low-emission transportation part of their operations,” said DEP Secretary Rich Negrin. It also helps lower the level of carbon dioxide, helping to address climate change.

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Three sustainable fuels that could be the future of green aviation

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

When it comes to the airline industry, sustainable aviation fuel may be its ticket to a low-carbon future. In 2021, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) set a target for the aviation industry to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. It is made by combining hydrogen and carbon dioxide.

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California Air Resources Board Releases Draft Scoping Plan Update

Clean Energy Law

MAY 16, 2022

2] Governor Newsom, citing the Draft Scoping Plan Update’s reliance on CCS, included $100 million in new monies for carbon removal projects in his updated budget proposal. Regarding transportation, the Proposed Scenario envisions the rapid deployment of zero emission vehicles across all vehicle categories.

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The Real Cost of Food

Acoel

JANUARY 16, 2024

Less than a quarter of cropland is devoted to food directly eaten by humans, with the rest going to mostly to animal feed and biofuel feedstock, and it takes many pounds of grains to produce a pound of beef. Bovine guts generate methane, which is 85 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over 20 years.

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Comments on the Draft Fifth National Climate Assessment: Sabin Center Urges Deeper Discussion of Climate Resilience Planning, Barriers to Climate Action by Local Governments, and Other Key Topics

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Analyzes the effects of global change on the natural environment, agriculture, energy production and use, land and water resources, transportation, human health and welfare, human social systems, and biological diversity “3. 175564 (Exhibit A). 175568 (Exhibit D). 1] See Nos. 175569, 175570, and 175571 (Exhibit E).

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Transparency and ICAO’s Aviation Offsetting Scheme: Two Separate Concepts? – A New Sabin Center Working Paper

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Given the hurdles to achieving international cooperation, ICAO deserves kudos for developing its Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA), the program that aims to put the brakes on emissions from aviation—a sector responsible for approximately 5% of man-made radiative forcing.

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

Circle of Blue

APRIL 18, 2023

The law provides $140 billion in tax incentives, direct loans, and grants to replace fossil fuels with cleaner renewable energy that lowers emissions of carbon dioxide. industrial policy for energy and transportation. that convert organic wastes to methane to burn in power plants or used as transportation fuel.

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How the U.S. Can Cut Maritime Emissions

Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 10, 2023

Each year, the shipping industry delivers more than 10 billion tons of goods—amounting to approximately 90% of all trade but emits 1 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide in the process. Eliminating shipping emissions will go a long way towards reaching a zero-carbon future. However, to achieve these ambitions the U.S.

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How the U.S Can Cut Maritime Emissions

Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 10, 2023

Each year, the shipping industry delivers more than 10 billion tons of goods—amounting to approximately 90% of all trade but emits 1 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide in the process. Eliminating shipping emissions will go a long way towards reaching a zero-carbon future. However, to achieve these ambitions the U.S.

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Reading the Tea Leaves: Biden’s and California’s Vehicle Regs at the D.C. Circuit

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Transportation is now the source of 28% of U.S. The transportation sector is also a substantial source of nitrogen oxides and particulates, both of which are dangerous to human health. Congress left no doubt about its support for a shift to clean transportation and BEVs. The oral argument centered on these arguments.

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Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”

Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

32] Part of the reason the planet is greening stems from greater carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and greater planetary warming. [33] 33] Scientists find that plants grow faster as a result of higher carbon dioxide concentrations. This is due to both rising agricultural productivity and environmental conservation. [32]

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Revving up the Engine: Senate Prepares to Pass Landmark Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation for Transportation, Broadband, Energy and Water Projects

Arnold Porter

AUGUST 6, 2021

The bill includes the following major components: Reauthorization of surface transportation programs first reported favorably, and on a unanimous basis, by the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee through the Surface Transportation Reauthorization Act ( S. Division A & B—Surface Transportation Programs.

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Is It Possible to Phase Out Petroleum and Transform our Transportation System?

BETO Announces that Scientists from Multiple National Labs Are Finding New Ways to Convert Carbon Dioxide into Affordable Biofuels and Bioproducts

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

BETO Announces R&D Collaborations to Address Challenges in Biomanufacturing

California Air Resources Board Releases Draft Scoping Plan Update (Part 3)

Glossary of Greenhouse Gas Terms

DEP Awards $2.9 Million In Grants To Schools, Businesses, Local Governments To Switch To Zero- Or Low-Emission Vehicles; Next Round Of Applications Due Dec. 15

Three sustainable fuels that could be the future of green aviation

California Air Resources Board Releases Draft Scoping Plan Update

The Real Cost of Food

Comments on the Draft Fifth National Climate Assessment: Sabin Center Urges Deeper Discussion of Climate Resilience Planning, Barriers to Climate Action by Local Governments, and Other Key Topics

Transparency and ICAO’s Aviation Offsetting Scheme: Two Separate Concepts? – A New Sabin Center Working Paper

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

How the U.S. Can Cut Maritime Emissions

How the U.S Can Cut Maritime Emissions

Reading the Tea Leaves: Biden’s and California’s Vehicle Regs at the D.C. Circuit

Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”

Revving up the Engine: Senate Prepares to Pass Landmark Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation for Transportation, Broadband, Energy and Water Projects

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