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Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger issued Executive Order S-1-07 on January 19, 2007, to enact a low-carbon fuel standard (LCFS). [14] [15] The LCFS requires oil refineries and distributors to ensure that the mix of fuel they sell in the Californian market meets the established declining targets for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions measured in CO 2-equivalent grams per unit of fuel ...
For much of the United States' history, fossil fuels have been a major energy source. While phasing out these fossil fuels will benefit the world climate in the long run, little has been done to stop burning fossil fuels and emitting CO 2 into the atmosphere. If the United States effectively phases out fossil fuels, tons of energy in the form ...
A similar regulation (13 CCR §2022) [4] was issued in 2005 to cover trucks owned by public agencies and utilities, [5] and expanded via 13 CCR 2025/2027 [6] as the 2008 California Statewide Truck and Bus Rule to all diesel-fueled trucks and buses in California. [7] The ICT rule was adopted in December 2018. [8] ICT amends the existing Fleet ...
California oil and gas regulators have begun denying permits for hydraulic fracturing citing the damage to the climate. Let's hope this is what the oil industry fears: The beginning of the end for ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday granted California its request to enforce vehicle emissions standards stricter than federal rules, including the state's ban on sales of new ...
California in-state electricity generation by source 2001-2020 (ignores imports which made up 32% of demand in 2018, but varies by year) - 2012 is when San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station shutdown; 2017 & 2019 were high rainfall years California electricity production by type showing seasonal variation in generation
A 2019 report from two non-profit environmental groups stated that "clean energy jobs" in California outnumbered fossil fuel jobs 5 to 1, but Jim Sweeney, a professor at Stanford's Precourt Energy Efficiency Center stated that two-thirds of the jobs labelled as "clean energy jobs" are jobs in energy efficiency, and are not new jobs, but rather ...