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CEPS task force report identifies tightening emissions standards as key policy to hit EU 60% reduction in transport GHG; full life-cycle emissions optimal metric
2013-07-01 11:30:16| Green Car Congress
King Pharmaceuticals settles over plant emissions
2013-06-29 03:20:22| Biotech - Topix.net
King Pharmaceuticals LLC has agreed to pay $2.2 million and comply with the Clean Air Act to resolve a complaint filed by federal prosecutors over emissions from its Bristol, Tenn., facility.
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Centuries worth of CO2 emissions could be stored underground, but at what cost?
2013-06-28 23:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: We could liquefy and cram our carbon dioxide emissions into the ground for some 500 years before America`s geologic basins started to overflow with the stuff. That`s according to a new assessment by federal scientists, who spent years scouring America for porous rocks thousands of feet beneath the ground that might be appropriate for carbon sequestration. They studied 36 geologic basins that could be suitable and found that the best region for storing waste CO2 would be the Gulf Coast. From...
Angela Merkel 'blocks' EU plan on limiting emissions from new cars
2013-06-28 17:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: German chancellor Angela Merkel personally thwarted plans this week to improve the fuel efficiency of European cars, in order to protect luxury marques including BMW, Audi and Daimler. Supporters of the policy, which had been agreed by officials from the 27 EU nations, say it would save motorists in the UK 400 a year in fuel costs. David Cameron helped Merkel block the plan to limit emissions from new cars sold in 2020, despite his own department of transport being in favour. The plan had been...
EU plans to make it mandatory for ship owners to measure carbon emissions
2013-06-28 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Owners of large ships using EU ports will have to measure and report annual carbon emissions from January 2018 under new European commission proposals published on Friday. The plans stop short of including shipping emissions in the EU carbon market, but the commission says they can still have an impact and are part of its work towards global emissions agreements. "The EU monitoring system will bring environmental and economic gains for the shipping sector by increasing transparency about emissions...
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