Image: EIA U.S. Transportation Sector Emissions Down 4.7% According to the US Energy Information Administration, which is part of the US Department of Energy, greenhouse gas emissions in 2008 were smaller in the US than in 2007. The decline was estimated to be of 157.2 million metric tons carbon dioxide equivalent (MMTCO2e), or about 2.2% ...

China today announced its first-ever target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, just one day after U.S. President Barack Obama pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the United States approximately 17 percent below ... the fastest growing economies in the world. As its GDP increases, so will its output of greenhouse gas emissions. Read more...China Promises to Cut Greenhouse ...

I'm more than a little late in reporting this, but EPA has proposed its greenhouse gas reporting rule. On October 30, 2009, EPA’s final mandatory greenhouse gas reporting rule was published in the Federal Register requiring reporting ... - road vehicles and engines. The rule does not require control of greenhouse gases, rather it requires that sources above certain threshold levels monitor ...

... Segundo and Torrance—were among the top 10 emitters of greenhouse gases in 2008 in California, according to the state Air Resources Board ... It is intended not only to shine a light on the state’s worst greenhouse gas emitters, but also to establish a baseline for a cap-and-trade ... law requires all new cars sold statewide to reduce greenhouse emissions 30 percent by 2016. The results were first ...

... global land management alternatives in determining potential greenhouse gas mitigation by land-based activities in ... . Land-based activities are responsible for over a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, yet the economics of land-use decisions have ... of production. When land-using sectors are confronted with a tax on greenhouse gas emissions, we find significant changes in the global pattern ...

... a concerted advocacy effort across the country to issue regional reports on greenhouse gas emissions. The increase is caused by more cars on the ... , this state is not the worst offender. Arizona's greenhouse gas emissions increased by 61 percent, while ... legislation. Federal lawmakers have set their sights on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Proposals making their way through Congress would ...

... Numerous countries which have already set reduction targets of greenhouse gases have criticized the president for not committing to an amount. ... United States, as the world’s second largest emitter of greenhouse gases, must make a serious commitment to the Copenhagen meeting ... meeting to discuss and agree upon ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. While it is uncertain whether a formal agreement ...

... report suggesting Alberta and Saskatchewan would take the biggest hit from greenhouse gas reduction efforts, there was a flurry of headlines, hand ... one B.C. has introduced. Industries that don't produce greenhouse gases will roll along happily. Those that do will face big extra ... economy," away from carbon emitting industries, like the oil and gas sector and coal mining. Mining, smelting, ...

... Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) today not to include greenhouse gas emissions standards in its certification criteria, Friends ... biofuels campaigner Kenneth Richter said: “By refusing to bring greenhouse gas emission standards into their certification scheme, palm ... 3.Palm oil producers know they cannot meet EU minimum greenhouse gas saving criteria for biofuels to be accounted under ...

The US EPA has published its final rule on greenhouse gas reporting for 31 American industrial sectors; see the ... own GHG emission reporting regulation. The comment period on MOE’s proposal closes today; here is the Greenhouse Gas Emission Reporting regulation comment by the ... reporting regulation Ontario has adopted Regulation 452/09, its Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting...Ontario’s GHG ...