Sentences with phrase «carbon fuel standards»

Once the utilities get on board, and especially if they get low carbon fuel standard credits for participation, the build out will accelerate.

For example, low - carbon fuel standards require a reduction in the average amount of global warming pollution per gallon of fuel.

They have at least tried to prevent their low - carbon fuel standards from impacting food supply.

Governments should make ineligible from low - carbon fuel standards biofuels made from crops or from the dedicated use of land.

«Tradable credits system design and cost savings for a national low carbon fuel standard for road transport.»

The plan includes boosting the purchase of zero - emission buses, getting 1.5 million zero - emission vehicles on the road by 2025 and strengthening the state's low carbon fuel standard by requiring oil companies to reduce the carbon intensity of their fuel 18 percent by 2030.

Increase biofuels to 60 million gallons by 2030, low - carbon fuel standard of 10 % by 2010, 1 million plug ‐ in hybrid cars by 2025, raise fuel economy standards, smart growth funding, end oil subsidies, promote natural gas drilling, enhanced oil recovery

That, along with the stimulus package and consideration of low - carbon fuel standards in California, provided an impetus.

Low carbon fuel standards under consideration by US presidential candidate Barack Obama and already implemented in California threaten to close sections of the American market to products derived from tar.

The low - carbon fuel standard orders providers to reduce the carbon intensity of their fuels by 10 percent by 2020 through efforts such as blending in biofuels that result in less greenhouse gases emitted when burned.

In a January 25, 2010 pro-industry strategy proposal to an Alberta government official, Whatley wrote that he was interested in «conducting a grassroots operation» in «target states» that would «generate significant opposition to discriminatory ow carbon fuels standards» that were created to address climate change.

Of the bills we were tracking, notably the low carbon fuel standard failed to advance, but a handful made it past the cutoff:

Low carbon fuel standards work by requiring that vehicle fuels become cleaner over time.

Ahhnold spent the day tooling around Toronto with entourage in five big SUVs, signing agreements to commit Ontario to match California's low carbon fuel standards for cars, and burnishing the tarnished environmental image of Ontario Premier Dalton

The second phase — the rules for which DEQ is currently seeking comments — require the same parties to meet the low carbon fuel standards by supplying cleaner fuels in Oregon or purchasing credits from clean fuel providers.

Proposed carbon pricing legislation in the U.S. as well as low carbon fuel standards being adopted by California and other states could make many oil sands projects marginal or entirely uneconomic in future.

It was Canadian Business that, back in 2007, brought attention to California's low - carbon fuel standard that effectively blocks oilsands exports to that state — despite the fact that California's own exempted heavy - oil industry has been shown to be more carbon intensive than the oilsands average.

that, back in 2007, brought attention to California's low - carbon fuel standard that effectively blocks oilsands exports to that state — despite the fact that California's own exempted heavy - oil industry has been shown to be more carbon intensive than the oilsands average.

Environmental groups are employing the same strategy, in a less direct way, on the oilpatch, by raising public opposition to pipelines and low - carbon fuel standards for refineries in California and Europe.

Two independent studies commissioned by the Alberta Energy Research Institute in 2008 concluded that the life - cycle carbon emissions (including burning it in your car engine) of oil derived from the oilsands was just 10 % greater than the average from all sources and slightly less than that from the heavy - oil industry in California, a state that has adopted a low - carbon fuel standard that would exclude the product of the Canadian oilsands.

But B.C. isn't the only place with a Clean Fuel Standard (also known as a low - carbon fuel standard).

Last week, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) adopted a low - carbon fuel standard that requires greater use of fuels that cause lower greenhouse gas emissions, compared with gasoline.

Ultimately, the political problem that regulators face here in the U.S. as they struggle with the California low - carbon fuel standard and the revised EPA Renewable Fuel Standard is that they are trying to regulate biofuels producers with respect to indirect changes over which they (both the regulators and the biofuels producers) have little control.

«It really is the single issue holding back the low - carbon fuel standards,» he says.

U.S. EPA and the California Air Resources Board incorporate ILUC to determine the greenhouse gas - cutting benefits of biofuels in the federal renewable fuel standard and the low - carbon fuel standard, respectively.

The California Air Resources Board developed the program, a set of 70 measures, such as a low - carbon fuel standard, an increase in electricity generated from renewable resources to 33 percent, and a cap - and - trade program for 360 utilities, refineries and other emitting industries.

The state's low - carbon fuel standard, in place since 2009, requires fuel producers and importers to reduce the carbon content of their offerings by 10 percent by 2020 or to buy credits in a state - created market (ClimateWire, Jan. 5).

Canada's Globe and Mail reports that as part of a more C$ 7 - billion (US$ 5.4 - billion), 4 - year climate change plan, the Ontario government will invest C$ 285 million (US$ 221 million) in electric vehicle incentives; implement lower carbon fuel standards; and invest C$ 280 million (US$ 217 million) to help school boards buy electric buses and trucking... Read more →

More than 170 scientists and economists have sent a letter to California Air Resources Board (ARB) Chairman Mary Nichols urging the board to account for greenhouse gas emissions from indirect land use change for biofuels and all other transportation fuels under the state's proposed low carbon fuel standard (LCFS).

Oregon's Department on Environmental Quality (DEQ) is inviting public comment on a proposed rulemaking that would fully implement Oregon's low carbon fuel standard (LCFS).

Technically there are all sorts of complications — the different energy density of different liquid fuels, how electricity should be treated if used to power pure electric or plug - in hybrid vehicles — for starters, but conceptually the low carbon fuel standard is simple and elegant.

As a result, I've been working with a number of US legislators on an evolution to a «sustainable fuel standard» to move beyond our work on a «low - carbon fuel standard».

However, the review does not make clear what advances in this area are already supported through [the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy], and what areas of near - term research are also not best driven though regulation, such as low - carbon fuel standards, R&D tax credits, «feebates» that transfer funds from those individuals who purchase inefficient vehicles to those who purchase efficient ones.

A natural next step is to evolve from a low - carbon fuel standard, to a sustainable fuel standard.

To do this, companies will need to continue to innovate, and low - carbon fuel standards, such as we developed here in CA, will need to spread to other states, nations, and regions.

Meantime, President Obama can fulfill another campaign promise by starting work on a national low - carbon fuel standard.

All of these giants are involved in tar sands production, and have just as much motivation as Valero to roadblock a low carbon fuel standard.

A low carbon fuel standard, based on scientific fact and gradually implemented, would be beneficial — but not as C - ARB has corrupted it.

A low - carbon fuel standard.

One such bill opposes state low - carbon fuel standards, which otherwise could limit the sale of dirty Canadian tar sands.

Those include not only the EPA's greenhouse gas regulations but also the Renewable Fuel Standard, sub-rosa carbon regulations like the Utility MACT Rule (which effectively bans the construction of new coal power plants), California's EPA - awarded power to meddle in fuel - economy regulation, California's cap - and - trade program and low - carbon fuel standard, the Northeast States» regional greenhouse gas regulatory compact (RGGI), and State renewable portfolio standards (RPS).

Another is a B.C. - style low - carbon fuel standard, which requires a 10 per cent reduction in the carbon intensity of gasoline by 2020.

Proposed carbon pricing legislation in the U.S. as well as low carbon fuel standards being adopted by California and other states could make many oil sands projects marginal or entirely uneconomic in future.

iCET is best known for its work toward bringing vehicle fuel economy and low carbon fuel standards to China.

Ginsburg says he believes Oregon, which also left the WCI, will be able to match California's global warming emissions reductions, mainly through its proposed low - carbon fuel standard.