latimes.com - 4/24/2009
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LA Times: California took aim Thursday at the oil industry and its impact on global warming, adopting the world's first regulation to limit greenhouse gas emissions from the fuel that runs cars and trucks. The Air Resources Board voted 9 to 1 in favor of the complex new rule, which is expected ...
sacbee.com - 4/25/2009
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sacbee.com —
Sacramento Bee: In car-crazy California, a new fuel
standard ordered by state officials to curb greenhouse gases...
could dramatically change how vehicles run. It also could have a huge effect on cost. The petroleum industry and some economists say the ...
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California's low-carbon fuel standard has oil companies ...
wwwp.dailyclimate.org - 4/20/2009
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Daily Climate: California regulators, trying to assess the
true environmental cost of corn ethanol, are poised to...
declare that the biofuel cannot help the state reduce global warming. As they see it, corn is no better – and might be worse ...
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California takes on King Corn
latimes.com - 4/24/2009
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latimes.com —
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger praised the "first-in-the-world low carbon
fuel standard," noting that 16 other states are looking...
to California as a model and that President Obama has called for a national standard. It will "not only reduce global ...
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California to limit greenhouse gas emissions of vehicle ...
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Beginning to Say No to Deforestation Biofuels
Climate Change Blog —
California is setting the precedent of regulating greenhouse gas emissions from transport fuels [ark]. The regulation requires producers, refiners and importers of gasoline and diesel to reduce the carbon footprint of their fuel by 10% over the next decade. And it launches the state on an ambitious path toward cutting its overall heat-trapping emissions by 80% by mid-century.
Critically, as our recent alert demanded, indirect land uses impacts of biofuels [search], starting with corn ethanol, are to be considered when determining a fuel's net ...
Cali Gets a Low-Carbon Fuel Standard — Oh My!
Earth2Tech —
... Unsurprisingly, not everyone’s thrilled with the idea — or at least the execution. As the Los Angeles Times reports, the ethanol industry, which has found an advocate in General Wesley Clark, takes issue with ARB’s decision to include land use effects — the climate impact of switching land over to grow energy crops — in its calculations, while not dinging the oil industry for the carbon footprint of U.S. military forces protecting oil reserves in the Middle East. The CEO of ethanol giant POET called the regulation “well-intentioned but ...
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