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Energy Innovation at the Department of Defense: Assessing the Opportunities
In recent years, driven by the demands of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as looming budgetary stress, the United States Department of Defense has increasingly focused on the ways in which energy affects its operations and the opportunities to improve its performance through the development and adoption of…
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Clean Diesel Versus CNG Buses: Cost, Air Quality, & Climate Impacts
This memo summarizes the results of an analysis which compares the economic, and the air quality and climate impacts, resulting from the use of compressed natural gas (CNG) transit buses to those from modern diesel buses.
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Sick of Soot: How the EPA Can Save Lives by Cleaning Up Fine Particle Air Pollution
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must soon update national health standards for fine particulate matter air pollution (PM2.5), commonly referred to as soot—a major cause of premature death and a widespread threat to those who suffer from lung and heart disease. The national health standards are critical tools that…
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Reliability-Only Dispatch: Protecting Lives & Human Health While Ensuring System Reliability
Mandated under the Clean Air Act (“CAA”), the coal- and oil-fired electric utility Air Toxics Rule creates the first ever national limits on power plant air emissions of mercury, arsenic, hydrochloric and sulfuric acids and other hazardous air pollutants (“HAPs”). The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) estimates that the Rule,…
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Geoengineering and Climate Policy: Risk, Knowledge, and Inertia
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The Toll from Coal: An Updated Assessment of Death and Disease from America’s Dirtiest Energy Source
Among all industrial sources of air pollution, none poses greater risks to human health and the environment than coal-fired power plants.
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Perspectives on Monitoring of Saline and EOR Geologic Carbon Injection and Sequestration Sites
Geologic carbon sequestration offers both the potential to provide a permanent sink for industrial CO2 emissions, and added value to tertiary enhanced oil and gas recovery (EOR). Subsurface injection of carbon dioxide is a proven technology developed in the EOR industry over the past three decades. However, EOR efforts have…
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A Plan to Enhance Energy Efficiency by Harmonizing Federal Energy Efficiency Programs
