In my blog last week on the attack campaigns against the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), an innovative policy tool for reducing the global warming pollution in our fuels, I wrote about the Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) and its affiliated “organizations.” While it portrays itself as a consumer organization, it is in reality a front group run by a lobby group and backed by the American Petroleum Institute, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and other titans of the status quo, bent on keeping America addicted to oil. And not just any oil but the dirtiest oil on the planet.
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Posted on March 15, 2010
· in USA
David Crane’s article about the low carbon fuel standard, fuel prices and market forces truly represents “misplaced priorities” on behalf of the author. Somehow he connects the dots between high oil prices and the need for a low carbon fuel standard. If the oil market was being truly driven by market forces, their may be an inkling of a connection here. However oil markets are now driven by Wall Street investment decisions and the switching of investment bundles into different classes of products, including oil commodities. Oil prices have very little to do with market forces and very much to do with currently-legalized gambling.
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Posted on March 12, 2010
· in UK
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) — Eleven U.S. states have decided to follow California’s low carbon fuel standard, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Wednesday.
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Posted on January 14, 2010
· in USA
HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Governor Edward G. Rendell has signed a memorandum of understanding with 10 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states committing to a regional effort to develop a comprehensive, regional low carbon fuel standard to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels.
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Posted on January 14, 2010
· in Press Releases
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SACRAMENTO, CA — Energy and fuel officials are gathered in Sacramento to discuss new low carbon fuel standards. They say the regulations may be difficult and costly to achieve.
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Posted on October 20, 2009
· in USA
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Global natural gas production will need to grow by 70 percent if the world is to start reducing carbon dioxide emissions quickly enough to avoid the worst effects of climate change, according to a study released on Tuesday.
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Posted on October 11, 2009
· in Global
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Environmental groups and other interests on Tuesday called for the state to require oil refineries and fuel blenders to reduce the overall carbon content of vehicle fuels sold in the state.
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Posted on September 10, 2009
· in USA
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New environmental regulations for transportation fuels being considered in Congress would deal a “devastating” blow to U.S. projects like the proposed Hyperion Energy Center in Union County, according to a coalition of business groups.
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Posted on September 7, 2009
· in USA
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The state Legislature on Wednesday approved a bill that calls for reducing the carbon content of transportation fuels sold in Oregon by 10 percent by 2020.
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Posted on June 26, 2009
· in USA
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In car-crazy California, a new fuel standard ordered by state officials to curb greenhouse gases could dramatically change how vehicles run.
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Posted on April 26, 2009
· in USA
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LOS ANGELES: Democrats in Congress worked on Thursday to win over US lawmakers skeptical of climate change legislation, while climate leader California took another major step with low-carbon rules on fuels that could be copied nationwide.
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Posted on April 26, 2009
· in USA
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(ST. LOUIS) April 24, 2009 – National Corn Growers Association President Bob Dickey released the following statement today on the California Air Resources Board’s passage of a proposed low carbon fuel standard:
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Posted on April 25, 2009
· in USA
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California became the first state in the nation Thursday to mandate carbon-based reductions in transportation fuels in an attempt to cut the state’s overall greenhouse gas emissions.
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Posted on April 24, 2009
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