Moving Cooler : An Analysis of Transportation Strategies for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Natural Resources Defense Council
http://www.nrdc.org/media/2009/090728.asp
[From press release]  The first-ever comprehensive analysis of transportation efficiency and its relationship to greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction and consumer savings was released today by a diverse group of stakeholders committed to addressing climate change…
The Moving Cooler report, published by the Urban Land Institute, looks at the possibilities of transportation efficiencies – [...]

Ranking States’ Oil Vulnerability and Solutions for Change

David Gardiner & Associates
http://www.nrdc.org/energy/states/files/states.pdf
[From press release] America’s addiction to oil continues to threaten not only our national security and global environmental health, but also our economic viability. NRDC analyzed how heavily drivers in each state are affected by increases in oil prices and ranked states on their adoption of solutions to reduce their oil dependence [...]

Energy Markets : Refinery Outages Can Have Varying Gasoline Price Impacts, but Gaps in Federal Data Limit Understanding of Impacts

General Accountabilty Office
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09700.pdf
[Summary] In 2008, GAO reported that, with the exception of the period following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, refinery outages in the United States did not show discernible trends in reduced production capacity, frequency, and location from 2002 through 2007. Some outages are planned to perform routine maintenance or upgrades, while unplanned outages [...]

Environmental Decision-Making Using Life Cycle Impact Assessment and Stochastic Multiattribute Decision Analysis: A Case Study on Alternative Transportation Fuels

Environmental Science Technology (Article ASAP, DOI: 10.1021/es801123h,
Web Publication February 6, 2009) / by Kristin Rogers and Thomas P. Seager
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es801123h
Open access article
[Green Car Congress posting] A pair of researchers from Purdue University and Rochester Institute of Technology are proposing a new approach to Lifecycle Impact Assessment (LCIA), designed to represent simultaneously multiple weights spaces and the [...]

Energy Policy Act of 2005 : Summary and Analysis of Enacted Provisions

Congressional Research Service
http://opencrs.com/document/RL33302
[Abstract.]  The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (P.L. 109-58), signed by President Bush August 8, 2005, was the first omnibus energy legislation enacted in more than a decade. Major provisions include tax incentives for domestic energy production and energy efficiency, a mandate to double the nation’s use of biofuels, repeal of restrictions on [...]

Climate Change and Health Costs of Air Emissions from Biofuels and Gasoline

Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (early edition — Feb. 2, 2009, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0812835106)  / by Jason Hilla, Stephen Polaskya, Erik [...]

The Road…Less Traveled: An Analysis of Vehicle Miles Traveled Trends in the U.S.

Brookings Institution / by Robert Puentes and Adie Tomer
http://www.brookings.edu/metro/~/media/Files/rc/reports/2008/1216_transportation_tomer_puentes/vehicle_miles_traveled_report.pdf
The Wall Street Journal’s Ana Campoy reports:
As politicians debate how to break the nation’s addiction to foreign oil and curb its global-warming emissions, laypeople are already setting an example: They’re cutting back on driving.
That’s not just because they were shocked into conserving when gasoline prices surpassed $4 [...]

The Petroleum Reduction Planning Tool

Alternative Fuels and Advanced Vehicles Data Center, US Dept. of Energy
https://www.afdc.energy.gov/afdc/prep/index.php
[Website and press release] The Petroleum Reduction Planning tool helps fleets, consumers, and business owners create a strategy to reduce conventional fuel use in fleet and personal vehicles. This interactive tool allows users to evaluate and calculate petroleum reductions by choosing one or a combination [...]

Renewable Fuel Standard Program

US EPA
http://www.epa.gov/otaq/renewablefuels/index.htm
[Website] EPA, under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 is responsible for revising and implementing regulations to ensure that gasoline sold in the United States contains a minimum volume of renewable fuel. The Renewable Fuel Standard program will increase the volume of renewable fuel required to be blended into gasoline from 9 [...]

How Should Transport Emissions Be Reduced?

OECD / by Charles Raux
http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:oec:itfaaa:2008/1-en&r=ene
[Abstract] In developed countries, transport generates approximately 25 to 30 per cent of emissions of CO2, the main greenhouse gas (GHG) and these emissions are increasing sharply. There are two explanations for the increase in emissions from transport: the first is dependency on the internal combustion engine for transport with no [...]