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A Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Union of Concerned Scientists

The CI is determined through a lifecycle analysis of the global warming pollution associated with the production and use of gasoline, diesel, biofuels, electricity, or other alternative fuels. Getting this right is important, both for California and to ensure the LCFS remains a workable model for other states and the federal government.

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Space for all: here are some of the huge commercial opportunities away from Earth

Physics World

Sent up by universities, governments and start-ups, they do everything from monitoring deforestation to tracking radio-tagged endangered animals. Powered by ultra-low-carbon biofuel, it will have 86% fewer emissions than a fossil-fuel rocket. They typically last for no more than five years, burning up when done.

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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

Globally, the rate of reforestation is catching up to a slowing rate of deforestation. [11] Governments and farmers have known what “biosecurity” measures to take for decades, and enacted them, partly, in response to the 2005 avian flu (H5N1) epidemic. Central America, South America, Africa, and Oceania are still deforesting.