InsideClimate: As concerns rise over plans to pipe Canadian tar sands oil to the East Coast for the first time, a dormant effort to clean up the region's fuels is showing new signs of life.
The Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management [3] (NESCAUM) has accelerated a project to crunch the full "life cycle" carbon emissions of vehicle fuels used in the regionfrom their extraction through to their refining, transportation and combustion.
With the carbon fuel tracker, NESCAUM hopes to advance a clearer...