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Brazil pledges to slash emissions, but will count old reductions
2015-09-27 16:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Brazil pledged on Sunday to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 43 percent by 2030 as its contribution to a United Nations climate agreement, but said it will include reductions from past efforts against deforestation to help it reach the target. President Dilma Rousseff presented the country's pledges during a speech at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, noting the targets are more ambitious than those of most developed countries and that Brazil will not need external support to achieve them....
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Brazil pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions
2015-09-27 15:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Brazil on Sunday became the first major developing country to pledge an absolute reduction in greenhouse gas emissions for an envisioned global pact against climate change. The world's seventh biggest greenhouse gas polluter said it would cut its emissions by 37 percent by 2025 from 2005 levels by reducing deforestation and boosting the share of renewable sources in its energy mix. It also indicated an "intended reduction" of 43 percent by 2030. "Our goals are just as ambitious, if not more so,...
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Why Did Volkswagen Cheat On Diesel Emissions In Its TDI Cars?
2015-09-27 06:59:47| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
In the last week, the company has fired much of its upper management, eradicated all mention of its TDI diesels from its U.S. website, and admitted that 11 diesel million vehicles have software that enabled them to pass emission tests whle emitting 10 to 35 times the permissible U.S. levels of nitrous oxides. Yesterday the German transport ministry announced that Volkswagen had rigged emission tests on 2.8 million diesel vehicles in Germany alone.
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EPA has a new plan to prevent cheating on auto emissions tests
2015-09-26 20:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: Days after Volkswagen admitted that half a million cars it sold in the U.S. contained software enabling them to evade clean air laws, top Environmental Protection Agency officials said they are planning to toughen emissions testing for all automakers. The EPA now plans to examine vehicles for so-called defeat devices. In a letter released Friday morning, the EPA said that federal regulations allow the agency to "test or require testing on any vehicle at a designated location, using driving cycles...
DOT announces $22.5M in latest round of low or no emissions bus deployment (LoNo) funding
2015-09-26 16:55:27| Green Car Congress
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