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Ridesharing: Context, Trends, and Opportunities
Transportation in the United States faces significant challenges, including uncertain funding, congestion, unsustainable trends in energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and high costs to households and government. Ridesharing represents a cost-effective option for addressing many of these concerns. …
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Time for Some Action on PEVs
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An Action Plan to Integrate Plug-in Electric Vehicles with the U.S. Electrical Grid
Executive Summary Americans purchased almost 18,000 plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) in 2011, a strong first year for these transformative vehicles. Recently, private industry and government have invested valuable resources in developing, promoting, and deploying PEVs. These vehicles offer an uncommon …
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CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery: A Critical Domestic Energy, Economic, and Environmental Opportunity
Introduction Amidst economic uncertainty, fiscal crisis and political division over energy policy, carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery (CO2-EOR) offers a safe and commercially proven method of domestic oil production that can help the United States simultaneously address three urgent national …
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Greenhouse Gas Accounting Framework for Carbon Capture and Storage Projects
Greenhouse Gas Accounting Framework for Carbon Capture and Storage Projects February 2012 Download the full report (PDF) Press Release Other Resources: Climate Techbook: Carbon Capture and Storage Factsheet Foreword Meeting the global challenge to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions …