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The ARB tells Hedegaard, who is responsible for the FQD, that this is this opposite of the case in California: The expected administrative burden for companies to comply with ARB's high-carbon intensity crude oil provisions is minimal.
UK 'extraordinarily naive' over Canada's tar sands lobbying | Damian Carrington 2011
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In high-carbon industries there are many credible alternatives emerging.
Carbon tax rebate may be logical if it can level the playing field | Ben Caldecott 2011
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Those who seek to hold back the tides will lose out: as the evidence of climate change grows increasingly dire, high-carbon goods and services will, before too many passing years, become untenable, replaced by the low-carbon alternatives of a new era.
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Energy experts believe renewable technologies could even allow poor communities without electricity to leapfrog the West's high-carbon technology, in the same way mobile phones jumped over landline technology in many developing African countries.
Blue-Sky Thinking Angela Henshall 2011
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Hunters are particularly fond of high-carbon steel for their field knives because they need a knife that will keep its edge while skinning large animals.
Which is a better material for a knife, high carbon steel or stainless steel? 2009
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He challenged them to break the link between growth and the production of high-carbon goods, saying a "business as usual" approach to increasing national wealth was at odds with tackling climate change.
Prince Charles condemns 'corrosive' climate change sceptics 2011
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Indeed, it does precisely the reverse, encouraging conventional high-carbon investments in gas and coal fired generation.
Michael Jacobs: Europe's Carbon Choice Michael Jacobs 2010
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Indeed, it does precisely the reverse, encouraging conventional high-carbon investments in gas and coal fired generation.
Michael Jacobs: Europe's Carbon Choice Michael Jacobs 2010
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Indeed, it does precisely the reverse, encouraging conventional high-carbon investments in gas and coal fired generation.
Michael Jacobs: Europe's Carbon Choice Michael Jacobs 2010
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Hunters are particularly fond of high-carbon steel for their field knives because they need a knife that will keep its edge while skinning large animals.
Which is a better material for a knife, high carbon steel or stainless steel? 2009
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