Relevant Links
Climate and Carbon
Cool California
Carbon Footprint and Greenhouse Gas
calculators and other air quality tools for residences and businesses.
Welcome to the California Climate Change
Portal
The portal website for the State of
California's Climate Change activities.
Chicago Climate Exchange
North America's only cap and trade
system for all six greenhouse gases, with global affiliates and projects worldwide.
Climate Action Team - CAT
Cal-EPA led inter-agency climate
assessment and policy coordination.
Combined Cooling, Heating &
Power (CCHP)
Home - United States Clean Heat & Power
Association
Advocacy, networking, education,
& market information for clean, local energy generation.
Combined Heat and Power Partnership | US
EPA
Voluntary program seeking to reduce
the environmental impact of power generation by promoting CHP.
Midwest Combined Heat and Power Application
Center
Comprehensive source of information
on integrated systems for buildings cooling, heating, and power for eight States: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
WADE : World Alliance for Decentralized Energy -
Localpower.org
WADE works to increase the market
share of cogeneration and on-site renewables in the global power mix to create a cost-effective, robust and
sustainable electricity system.
Consulting
JDMT, Inc - Home Page
JDMT, Inc provides consulting
services focused on waste and energy resource management.
Renewable and Sustainable Energy, Fuels and Co-products
Southern California Conversion
Los
AngelesCounty in leading Southern California in the
assessment and implementation of ultra-clean technologies for resource recovery from Municipal Solid
Waste.
CEN Energy Center
Swiss-based center for global clean
sustainable energy and biofuels."
Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB
Global standard and certification
scheme for socially, environmentally and economically sustainable production of biomass and
biofuels.
EERE: State Activities and Partnerships: States with Renewable
Portfolio Standards
Primary Department of Energy site
for tracking clean, renewable, energy technology development and implementation.
EPA Renewable Fuels Portfolio
Congress directed EPA in the Energy
Policy Act of 2005 to design a program that requires the blending of renewable fuels into our nation’s
motor-vehicle fuel supply. This program is called the Renewable Fuel Standard.
California Energy Commission Home Page
California Energy Commission
website facilitates access to data on energy production, consumption, conservation and use in California, as well
as information on renewable energy and energy research.
CEC Documents Portal
Guidelines, Publications, Reports,
and Applications Forms for the Renewable Energy Program.
California Renewables Portfolio Standard
(RPS)
Established in 2002 under Senate
Bill 1078 and accelerated in 2006 under Senate Bill 107, California's Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) requires
electric corporations to increase procurement from eligible renewable energy resources by at least 1% of their
retail sales annually, until they reach 20% by 2010.
California Clean Energy Fund
The California Clean Energy Fund
(CalCEF) was formed in 2004 to accelerate investment in California’s clean energy economy.
Next Generation Biofuels and Advanced Engines for Tomorrow's
Transportation Needs
In November 2009, Sandia convened a
workshop to examine the combined opportunities in biofuels and engines in the transportation sector. The outcome is
this 34-page report.
California Solar
Find solar companies in
California. Contact, compare and choose the best California solar company in your town.
Waste and Biomass Management
Conversion Technologies: Organic Materials
Management
The Department of Resources
Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) is committed to ensuring the efficient use of natural resources by encouraging
the continuous improvement and application of science and technology in the area of conversion technologies for
organic material known as biomass.
The California Biomass Collaborative:
Welcome
Sponsored by the California Energy
Commission and other agency and industry partners, the Collaborative works to enhance the sustainable management
and development of biomass in California for the production of renewable energy, biofuels, and
products.
EERE: Biomass Program Home Page
The DOE Office of Energy Efficiency
and Renewable energy's Biomass Program is focusing its research and development (R&D) efforts to ensure that
cellulosic ethanol is cost competitive by 2012.
EERE:Biomass Program: Biomass Document
Database
Publications from the U.S.
Department of Energy's Biomass Program and other biomass-related documents. Reports, fact sheets, Biomass Program
year-end reports, and more are available.
FireScienceOnline: A Guide to Forestry Careers and Degrees
A
Forestry career and education guidebook: Forestry guide features
career and employment information, internship listings, scholarships, instructor information, and a degree search
tool.
NREL: Biomass Research Home Page
The National Renewable Energy
Laboratory Biomass Research site provides information on NRELs biomass energy research for producing fuels,
chemicals, materials, and power from biomass.
Dioxin | Environmental assessment | US EPA
EPA’s Entry portal for on-going EPA
evaluation into causes and toxicity of dioxin and other Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).
Identification of Non-Hazardous Materials That Are Solid Waste |
US EPA
Addresses the definition of
non-hazardous solid waste under RCRA to help EPA better enforce these standards 112 and 129 under the Clean Air Act
by determining which combustion units are regulated by each section.
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