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Californians Deserve Secure Ports, Safe Air and Safe Roads Without Bond Debt
The report concluded: Projected cargo growth would far exceed potential ship traffic diversion, and, as a result, future ship traffic diversion would be “virtually unobservable.” A port user fee, ... in all regions of the state) were willing to support tougher air pollution standards for ships, trucks and trains that ship goods, even if it resulted in higher costs to business. (To view ...
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Safer fuels required in commercial ships and cargo-loading machines
In one day at dock, one ship can generate as much pollution as is produced by ... year for no other reason than that they have been exposed to air pollution produced by ships, trucks and trains. We applaud these decisions by the Air Resources Board. # # # >> Press Release Archives << ...
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ConservationEconomy.net Pattern Browser
Trade should enhance the well-being of the bioregion, adding a rich mix of goods and ideas while allowing the bioregion to meet more of its needs locally. This is equally true ... appropriately mitigated, perhaps through purchase of carbon emissions credits. Trains and ships are extremely energy efficient compared to trucks and planes. Over time, all transportation systems will make a transition to ...
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Get Energy Wise
Energy can heat or cool our homes and schools. Energy moves our cars, buses, motorcycles, trucks, planes and trains. Energy lets us make all kinds of things like shoes, CD's ... heat and light. In ancient times people used wind to sail their ships and grind grain. A hundred year's ago falling water was used to make electricity. Over time we have learned to get ...
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NRDC: OnEarth Magazine, Fall 2006 - The View from NRDC
We have to consider the cost of not building wind farms: more smog, more pollution-related illness, and more greenhouse gas emissions. Instead of business as usual, we should follow Denmark's example. Already, ... Long Beach have unveiled plans for a coordinated five-year program to reduce air pollution from ships, trucks, and trains at ports. It's the biggest effort of its type the industry has seen, ...
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Pacific Institute Online Update for February 2005
Emily Lee participated in a meeting of the Trucks Workgroup of the West Oakland Toxic Reduction Collaborative, which brings together residents, agencies, ... strategies to reduce pollution from non-road sources in West Oakland, including construction equipment, ships, and trains. 7/4-7/9/05, Peter Gleick participated in the Aspen Ideas Festival, giving ...
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SPA :: Peak Oil
This shows the difference between the amount of oil that you are finding and the amount of oil that you are pumping. Notice from 1960 on until about 1980, ... modern civilization. It fuels the vast majority of the worlds mechanized transportation equipment Automobiles, trucks, airplanes, trains, ships, farm equipment, the military, etc. Oil is also the primary feedstock for many ...
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Great Lakes Ports & Shipping
Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway, ships can reach Detroit, Mich., by covering only 3,673 miles (5,911 km). Ship travel saves energy, too, in comparison to trains, trucks and airplanes. A ship can ... and their ports of call. Collage photos courtesy Great Lakes Commission; stack insignia courtesy Great Lakes and Seaway Shipping; base map courtesy St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ...
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"Energy resources and our future" - remarks by Admiral Hyman Rickover delivered in 1957 | Energy Bulletin
Occasionally the ... , except very large ones. Rather than nuclear locomotives, it might prove advantageous to move trains by electricity produced in nuclear central stations. We are only at the beginning of nuclear technology, ...
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Ports | Sector Strategies Program | US EPA
This port growth has tremendous implications for intermodal transportation, e.g. ships, trucks, and trains, as well as property utilized for port activity. The challenge is to help ... development of incentives to reduce diesel emissions from off-road equipment used in the port and construction sectors. Revisions in the final report reflect comments made on the January 21st draft ...
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