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Biogenic Carbon Emissions Are Not Equivalent To Fossil Fuel Emissions, BIO Tells EPA
2014-05-12 07:58:00| pollutiononline News Articles
The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) “disagrees with the categorization of biogenic CO2 emissions as equivalent to those of fossil fuels,” the trade organization wrote recently in comments to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Proposed Standards of Performance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from New Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units
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Biogenic Carbon Emissions are Not Equivalent to Fossil Fuel Emissions, BIO Tells EPA
2014-05-09 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
BIO "disagrees with the categorization of biogenic CO2 emissions as equivalent to those of fossil fuels" the trade organization wrote in comments to EPA's Proposed Standards of Performance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from New Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units. According to Brent Erickson, executive vice president of BIO’s Industrial & Environmental Section, Electric Utility Generating Units firing biomass, regardless of percentage, should not be subject to proposed ...This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of:
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The 2014 Australian budget opportunity to end fossil fuel subsidies, so why won't it happen?
2014-05-07 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: "Australia may sell assets and cut welfare spending to rein in a debt burden that is already the second-smallest among developed nations" reported Bloomberg breathlessly early in May. Such is the madness of the deeply unpopular conservative Australian government, which will lay down its budget for the coming 12 months next week. In order to justify its right-wing agenda, the Abbott government ordered a National Commission of Audit. The Commission's report was released a week ago, and was described...
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Fossil fuel subsidies cost ~$2 Trillion annually, according to IMF
2014-05-02 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Clean Technica: Science informs us about the environmental cost of our global fossil fuel habit the IPCC recently reported that CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes contributed around 78 per cent of the total increase in greenhouse gas emissions between 1970 and 2010 but what about the economic cost? As has been noted here before, the combined value of global fossil fuel subsidies can be difficult to calculate, with recent estimates ranging from $500 billion to $1.9 trillion....
Fossil fuel subsidies preventing transition low-carbon economy
2014-05-01 16:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The massive subsidies given to the production and consumption of fossil fuels must be curbed if the world is to complete a transition to a low-carbon economy, UN experts have warned. Speaking at an event co-organised by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi on Wednesday, experts claimed that the support given to oil, gas and coal was contributing to fiscal instability and undermining efforts to prevent climate change. The subsidies given to renewable energy have proved controversial...
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