All Posts Tagged With: "CO2 emissions reduction"
A Cleantech Venture Who is Unconvinced of Man-Made Climate Change
Go ahead — call me a hypocrite. I claim to be a cleantech venture capitalist yet I tell you here and now that I am not convinced of anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change (aka global warming). And I will audaciously tell you that my convictions on climate change in no way run contrary to my strong belief in the need for a cleantech revolution.
19Dec2011 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
EPA Report: Clean Air Act Has Saved Millions of Lives
U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., has helped lead the GOP pushback against the regulation of GHG emissions. But the study estimates the benefits of reducing fine particle and ozone pollution under the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments will reach roughly $2 trillion by 2020 and saved countless lives.
4Mar2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Clean Transportation Sector –
FedEx Introduces First All-Electric Trucks
The parcel delivery gian is expanding its alternative-energy vehicle fleet with the first all-electric FedEx parcel delivery trucks in the United States. Four purpose-built electric vehicles are slated to hit the road in Los Angeles soon.
29Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
EPA: No Plans for Own Carbon Trading Program
The Obama administration has no plans to set up a “cap-and-trade” program for greenhouse gases under existing law if Congress doesn’t pass legislation doing so, the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in remarks at the National Press Club in Washington.
9Mar2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Salazar to Climate Skeptics: “You’re Wrong”
and the U.S. will Cap Emissions
“Some people don’t even accept that climate change is real,” the former Democratic senator from Colorado said in Copenhagen, where nearly 200 countries are meeting to negotiate a new treaty to combat global warming. “I believe they are wrong.”
11Dec2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Obama Aide: Energy Bill Needs Carbon Cap
It would be a “big mistake” for the Congress to approve an energy bill this year without placing a cap on greenhouse emissions, the White House’s top climate and energy adviser said on Wednesday.
8Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Technology Spotlight –
Colorado’s First Solar Thermal Installation Integrated With a Coal Plant
“The thing that’s attractive about this is you only have to buy the solar field portion of the plant, which is 50 to 60 percent of the cost of the plant,” says Hank Price, director of technology at Abengoa Solar. “It’s potentially the most cost-effective way to get significant solar power on the grid.”
8Sep2009 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
Study Finds Separate Battery Ownership Accelerates Mass-Market Adoption of Electric Cars
The study predicts that electric vehicles with this type of pricing will account for 64% of light vehicle sales and comprise 24% of the U.S. light-vehicle flet by 2030.
13Jul2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
We need to promote export terminals to liquify and ship natural gas to markets in Asia and Euroupe. The US ...
Natural Gas can be consumed so efficiently that the WATER can even be recovered from the combusted exhaust gases.
Going ...
Lack of funding is a serious obstacle for implementation of audit recommendations. Even small rebates will have little impact ...
Re: Natural gas generation wasn’t included in the final analysis but is generally assumed to emit about half as much ...
Disclosure MIGHT prevent pollution if there was a watchdog agency that ruled yes or no on particular chemicals before they ...
Having just read Tom Gray's article 'Fred Udo's bogus numbers' I get the feeling I haven't understood whats going on. ...
I agree with you kirsch. I knew this article had the stench of industry money as soon add I read ...
Can someone explain how disclosure prevents pollution? They can still release air toxins and they are still not held ...