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General Motors and the Environment
General Motors and the Environment Clearly, we are all distressed when 14,000 workers are let off, and their factories closed. General Motors in fact said that consumers are desiring to drive SUVs and Trucks more, so they are fulfilling consumer … Continue reading
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz’s Talk at Distinctive Voices at the Beckman
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz’s Talk at Distinctive Voices at the Beckman ”Accelerating the Clean Energy Transformation” Prof. Ernest Moniz was President Obama’s Secretary of Energy from 2013 to Jan. 2017. He worked with Secretary of State Kerry to negotiate the … Continue reading
Projected Carbon Tax Costs for Households in California and Orange County
per year. Coal is not of mix of our local utilities, and only 4% of in-state power is produced by coal. There is more used from out-of-state by long range LADWP contracts. The rate per therm of SoCalGas for natural … Continue reading
Notes From the Global Climate Action Summit, Day 1
Notes From the Global Climate Action Summit, Day 1 Over 4,000 people representing key climate action operators are taking part in GCAS. The sessions on Thursday and Friday, September 13 and 14, 2018, are being streamed live on YouTube, and … Continue reading
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Automotive Safety and the Trump Fuel Standards Rollback
Automobile Safety and the Trump Fuel Standards Rollback The Trump administration and EPA is giving out automobile safety as the reason for not increasing the fuel efficiency standards. They are using a rather specious argument that with better fuel economy, … Continue reading
New Summary of California Greenhouse Gas Emissions in 2016
Summary of California Greenhouse Gas Emissions for 2000 to 2016, 2018 Edition This report is from the California Air Resources Board. The units used are Million Metric Tons of CO2 equivalent (MMTCO2e), which we will shorten to “CO2” or just … Continue reading
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Climate-Wise Actions for Laguna Beach
Concerned about climate change? Here are some steps Laguna Beach residents (and everyone else) can take to combat climate change and help the environment. Walk more, drive less. Use the trolley…it’s free. Turn lights off at home. Use LED light … Continue reading
Electric Car Equivalent GHG Emissions in California Utilities
Electric Car Equivalent GHG Emissions in California Utilities Having determined the CO2 emissions per kWh for the leading California utilities, we can calculate the equivalent gasoline emissions for electric or plug in hybrid cars in the different utility areas. Since … Continue reading
Trump’s Deregulated America of Fears
Trump’s Deregulated America of Fears It’s essentially a mathematical theorem, that if you remove regulations that were imposed to prevent harm, that bad things will happen. Trump promised in the campaign, that for every new regulation, he would remove two. … Continue reading
Summary of Posts Relevant to Climate Action Plans for Southern California
Summary of Posts Relevant to Climate Action Plans for Southern California By Dennis Silverman UCI Physics and Astronomy My Blog is at: sites.uci.edu/energyobserver/ The Long-Term Outlook for Climate Sustainability An optimistic long-term outlook to 2100 to help survive the present … Continue reading
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