The University of California at San Diego, which runs a Zero Emission Vehicle Project, has 70 electric cars on order, and is putting Envision solar charging at its owned and operated parking garage.

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Media-fueled alarm about acid rain provided a basis for legislation to create markets for buying and selling excess sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen dioxide emission credits, and Project 88 became the Clean Air Act of 1990.

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The project to deliver a fleet of the zero emission taxis to the streets of London in time for 2012 is on track, with the first Fuel Cell Black Cabs covering a combined total of over 8, 000 miles in road and test track testing conditions.

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The scheme named the Captain Clean Energy Project, would see the creation of a new 570MW "low emission" coal power station with CO2 pumped into storage in offshore depleted gas fields.

BBC: Grangemouth and Peterhead make carbon capture shortlist

At the annual meeting of the Carbon Disclosure Project--a non-profit investor organization devoted to greater transparency in greenhouse gas emission statistics--Sun released a set of open-source software tools that companies can use to track carbon emissions.

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And earlier this month, Airbus, in association with Shell, Rolls Royce and Qatar Airways, began a research project to test 'Gas to Liquid' (GTL) technologies that convert lower-emission natural gas and other synthetic fuels into liquid kerosene.

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